Heat treat repair

[Badger]

  A friend gave me a bow he built to see if I could repair it somewhat. The bow was osage and had close to 5" of string follow, was drawing about 35# instead of 45# and had a huge hinge in both limbs right out of the fades, I had to remove a lot of wood just get the limbs bending to match the hinges, I did a pretty slow deep heat treat piked 1" off each limb tip and ended up at 44#@26" with 0 string follow. Decent performance. I was really surprised I picked up so much, going to let it rehydrate for a week before I give it back and see how it is holding up, I may pike another inch if I have to. Steve

[Keenan]

 Nice save Steve. Thanks for sharing the results

[adb]

Nice one, Steve! Do you have any pics?

[George Tsoukalas]

Good work, Steve. Got pics? Jawge

[mullet]

 Nice job Steve. I did almost the same thing with an Osage that I had one limb, the lower one, kept drooping on me. It was tillered close to perfect and shot real good. But I lost 5# because of that limb. I took the heat gun to it on the low setting and worked that weak limb over for quite a while and bent the limb in a slight reflex. After I shot it 3 or 4 dozen times it settled in close to the upper limb and I missed the target weight by 3#. I boxed it and put it in the mail.