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blackhawk

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Re: Nearly there...but ....
« Reply #15 on: February 17, 2012, 12:26:29 pm »
Can u repeat the exact words here you used after she went ???  ::)
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Offline Keenan

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Re: Nearly there...but ....
« Reply #16 on: February 17, 2012, 12:31:27 pm »
Bummer Del, sorry for your loss.  Yew will often break into multiple pieces like that. I've had a few let go in the final few inches of tillering and have picked up splinters all over the shop. Had one piece stuck in the celling one time
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Offline Buckeye Guy

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« Reply #17 on: February 17, 2012, 12:49:14 pm »
Wooohooooo
Wish that would have been on video!
Not that I'm wishing it on anyone or anything but!

Sorry for your loss Mr. Dell
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Offline Bernal

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Re: Nearly there...but ....
« Reply #18 on: February 17, 2012, 01:35:42 pm »
Of all bows to go boom, having it happen to a yew bow raises the sadness to different level.
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Re: Nearly there...but ....
« Reply #19 on: February 17, 2012, 01:42:34 pm »
Here are some pics, the near FD pic was at about 24", the right limb is a bit stiff and had been worked down a good bit since that pic. The iffy knot is on the left (lower) limb.

Iffy knot area taken a while back, before it was blended in and carefully smoothed.

Knot area after break, maybe it started here. there's plenty of sapwood there, but I think it was a stiff area and as I eased it of a tad, maybe that was enough to start the whole thing going bang. Interestingly, the break doesn't show on the belly where the knot shows through.
Also the other 'features' of the bow have remained intact... So although I can't say exactly where it started, I can see some of the points where it didn't start.

Pic showing another area where it went for no obvious reason.

Thanks for the sympathy guys... It's the first Yew ELB I've had go bang... a good thing to get out of the way.
I think I was lucky with the knots on my 90# warbow, so I feel I was due a blow up!
Del
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blackhawk

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« Reply #20 on: February 17, 2012, 02:14:37 pm »
I think your assesment is correct del. That break at that knot is more atrocious than the rest of the breaks. Kind of like when a piece a glass gets hit and cracked...the worst spot is at the point of impact,and then the stresses wave out from there. That's my take on it at least.
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Offline PEARL DRUMS

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« Reply #21 on: February 17, 2012, 02:16:57 pm »
I love the color of that stuff Del. Some day I want to try to break my own YEW ELB. 
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Offline Del the cat

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« Reply #22 on: February 17, 2012, 02:37:35 pm »
Here's an angled cross section of that knot as close to the break as I could get a clean cut.
It shows there is plenty of good sapwood and the knot is pretty sound. But I s'pose any discontinuity is a weak point.

Del
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Offline PEARL DRUMS

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« Reply #23 on: February 17, 2012, 02:39:24 pm »
That knot is also the high spot meaning it was working overtime.
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Offline JW_Halverson

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« Reply #24 on: February 17, 2012, 02:39:41 pm »
PM me with your address and I will send you some sinew.  Maybe you can rescue that one from the dust bin. 
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Offline MWirwicki

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Re: Nearly there...but ....
« Reply #25 on: February 17, 2012, 02:49:42 pm »
Ooooh, Ooouuucccchhhh!  Was reading the post, frame by frame then the shattered pic come up.  Sorry for your loss, Del.  I think I felt that one from here.

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Offline Onebowonder

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Re: Nearly there...but ....
« Reply #26 on: February 17, 2012, 02:57:59 pm »
Hide glue and some sinew patches!  You'll make a shooter out of this one yet!

Sorry, I shouldn't tease.  That has got to be the Gosh Awfullest blow out I've yet seen!
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Offline Del the cat

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Re: Nearly there...but ....
« Reply #27 on: February 17, 2012, 03:21:07 pm »
All the kings horses and all the kings men,
Couldn't put that one together again ;D
Thanks for the offer of sinew JW... I think ::)
Del
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Offline gstoneberg

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Re: Nearly there...but ....
« Reply #28 on: February 17, 2012, 03:54:16 pm »
Sad to see that Del.  It sure did come apart.  The one I blew up was violent too.  Maybe that's why I've been so slow with the other stave?

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Re: Nearly there...but ....
« Reply #29 on: February 17, 2012, 04:24:03 pm »
That stinks :-[ but I did get a chuckle when pearls suggested sanding ...and than back to feeling your loss did not see that coming  :-[
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