A while ago, I posted this:
http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php/topic,35573.msg468211.html#msg468211I had given up on it. I meanwhile know that this happened cause I had my wood standing in the shed, resulting in a much higher moisture content in the lower half of the stave.
I have made a stave rack since then.
I took it back from the failed pile lately and did as Zion suggested and heat treated the whole thing and steamed it and heated it again and steam one more round and so on, until it cracked from the bending.
Now it was straight and the limbs where in some balance, but it looked pretty bad (
abased, as my wife said when she saw it.)
I glued the crack up, patched it with rawhide and wrapped it. Made a leather handle, tillered and sanded a little and shot it in. Turned out a bow, after all, glad I hadn't burnt it yet.
It will go to a friend whose arms are longer than mine, so the full draw is somewhat shorter than should be.
Enough bla.
58@31, 72#, 26 ounces.
