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Offline Joec123able

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Fixable ?
« on: January 15, 2014, 11:24:32 pm »
So about a month and a half ago I steamed this handle to try and align the tips when I clamped it down it half cracked in a weird way I then just through it on the floor and then left it til now. Now does it look fixable ? Hopefully because this thing has a ton of character It would seem obvious that I could just clamp it down but the handle has a lot of checks in it



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Offline Zion

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Re: Fixable ?
« Reply #1 on: January 15, 2014, 11:28:29 pm »
You could pop that off and glue on a new riser
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Offline Bryce

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Re: Fixable ?
« Reply #2 on: January 15, 2014, 11:35:11 pm »
pour some glue down in there and clamp it up.
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Offline Pat B

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Re: Fixable ?
« Reply #3 on: January 15, 2014, 11:50:17 pm »
How thick is the limb between the crack and the back of the stave?
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Offline Joec123able

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Re: Fixable ?
« Reply #4 on: January 15, 2014, 11:55:00 pm »
Well it's basically impossible to clamp I cannot for the life of me get it clamped since the crack is right in the fade area it won't clamp with the odd angle so I guess the only option is pop it off
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Offline Blaflair2

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Re: Fixable ?
« Reply #5 on: January 16, 2014, 02:53:49 am »
Did the same thing yesturday! I popped it and glued on a different piece. U need to make sure u have an island to glue the block on.
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Offline bubby

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Re: Fixable ?
« Reply #6 on: January 16, 2014, 03:20:28 am »
Get an innertube run some glue in it and wrap it up snug
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Re: Fixable ?
« Reply #7 on: January 16, 2014, 05:50:37 am »
I would warm (notheat) it up, let run in some epoxi (gets fluid when warm), clamp in vice and wait 24 hours.
that should make the job.
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Re: Fixable ?
« Reply #8 on: January 16, 2014, 06:44:21 am »
Super glue and clamp in a vice is what I would do, it is on the compression side so shouldn't be a problem.  :)
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Offline Eric Krewson

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Re: Fixable ?
« Reply #9 on: January 16, 2014, 10:47:35 am »
That is pretty bad, I wouldn't trust it and suspect it will delaminate even with glue in the crack.

I made an errant cut with my band saw on a really fine osage stave a while back, put the stave back for years then decided to fix it.

I only had 1/2" thickness of handle area to work with so I glued on 1/8" strips to start. Once I got the handle up to about  3/4" in thickness I glued on a thicker piece to complete the new handle depth. I used Urac for glue.

You have to feather these strips into the limbs to keep them from popping off.

 

I made this bow in 2008, it is still shooting with no handle problems.
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