Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: blackhawk on May 17, 2012, 08:49:02 pm
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i was just out shooting with the wife,and i took out my number one go to shooter....a bamboo backed osage if ya'll remember it. ive shot thousands of arrows out of this thing and tonight its life came to an end. i really loved this bow...dang. :-\ i got wacked upside the head(i prob needed it),but im ok...just a small headache,and a lil heart ache to go with it. i am having a rotten week,car needs fixed,van got a flat,then van failed inspection n needs more fixing,some fam issues,i had to leave work early tue due to a small fam emergency,and blah blah blah...one of those weeks and now this....whats next!!!! ::)
the diagnoses is an easy one....it broke at a small cluster of pin knots...the osage was a plain sawn oriented piece of wood...it was a stave planed flat,and the clusters were still in the bow limb with no violation,yet its time was up..........
oh well...go make another i guess... ;) ;D :laugh:
(http://i1181.photobucket.com/albums/x436/blackhawk28/100_0037.jpg)
(http://i1181.photobucket.com/albums/x436/blackhawk28/100_0032.jpg)
(http://i1181.photobucket.com/albums/x436/blackhawk28/100_0033.jpg)
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Bummer!!! :'(
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That stinks. Was that the one you had at the Classic? If it was, that thing was sweet. Sorry about your bow and recent bad luck.
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That stinks. Was that the one you had at the Classic? If it was, that thing was sweet. Sorry about your bow and recent bad luck.
yeah pal it was
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That was one wicked little bow. That really stinks.
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Sorry to hear!!!
But you may have lost a bow but gained a garden stake....I have a couple in my garden right now!! :'(
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Only the good die young...........stay strong friend, stay strong..........................AND BUILD TWENTY MORE JUST LIKE IT!!!!!!!!!
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Rats.
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One more thing.........I told ya' to stay away from those blasted glue bows!
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Only the good die young...........stay strong friend, stay strong..........................AND BUILD TWENTY MORE JUST LIKE IT!!!!!!!!!
funny and wierd thing is,is that i started making plans earlier this week to make another very similar...i will build another almost just like it,but better i hope ;)....maybe this project will be my marshall project...well one of them ;)
if this was a selfbow it prob wouldve went to cus it was those pin clusters,not the boo ;)
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Sorry to see that one go on you. Also sorry to hear about the other stuff, and here I was thinkin that kinda stuff only happend to me ::) Been one of those months round here! Keep moving forward bro :)
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Yeah, but the wife is still ok? Right?
Tough one dude....
I got an E-mail last night which made me panic... it started saying 'Sad news, it blew up on me...'
It took a few moment to work out it was a newbie who I'd been helping out trying to tiller a bow (starting on a knotty Yew 110# warbow was always a big ask ::)) and not one of my bows.
Had my heart going for a moment or two.
Del
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"If you`re going through hell,,keep going" Churchill.
Sucks about the bow looks like a lovely one.
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Sad but sounds like it had a good life, RIP. :(
Pappy
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Looks more like a glue failure
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Blackhawk, start another right away. LOL. That's what I do. I've had 3 head plunkers at full draw...2 drew blood. One was a failed t stick. Bow ok. Still have it. T stick got burned in the fireplace. Another was a poorly chosen board when I thought "grain" grew in the fields. The other was a nice BL bow that had a naturally reflexed area on the bottom limb that I thinned too much. Taught me to narrow those areas that became too thin if they needed bending. There must have been others but those are the memorable ones because they happened at full draw. Come to think of it there were others that broke at full draw but these went flying about. I was looking at a BBO over the weekend that started to chrysal under a knot. Seems a perfect piece of osage is in order. I think I've had one of those. Made a nice selfie. I gave the bow to someone who decided to "improve" it. He was not a bowyer. It broke. Too bad for him. :) Jawge
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When it rains it pours bro. It's bad enough hearing the break without getting hit in the head. I'm sure an even sweeter replacement will come along soon enough. At least you have 10,000 others to play with until then. :) Hope the sun comes out for you soon buddy!
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Looks more like a glue failure
Yea, that's what I was thinking too.
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Looks more like a glue failure
Yea, that's what I was thinking too.
Me too.
Sorry to hear about if B.Hawk but at least you don't have a hole in the head!
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Just saw this.......Bummer......
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Ouch!!!
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From what I can see it doesn't look like it was the cluster of pins, as I can't see any chrysalling. You would normally see a progressive deterioration of chrysalling, then evidence of a hinge at that point until it finally broke. The bow would be giving you increasingly noticable warning signs, rather than a sudden snap out of the blue.
Could be like Marc and some of the others have suggested, a glue or shear failure near the glue line. The break is at the most stressed area on a deflex reflexed bow.
Hamish.
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Hmmmm??...i cant argue with several great minds saying the same thing...your all prob right then,and after the boo lifted the weakest point was at the knots at the reflexed area(higher stressed spot).......ahhhhh(sigh)....it just gives me another reason to dislike glue ups,although i like the looks,end results,and the performance of them.......im not done with them yet,and ill try some more.....
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Well you will obviuosly make more and better bows, good luck with the other things harder to control.