Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: coaster500 on September 05, 2012, 04:27:12 pm
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Still fairly new at bow building and until today I felt that maybe I was doing something wrong??? I have build 26 bows and haven't had one blow (in my presents.... my neighbor Bob's bow broke but I had shot a least 100 arrows through it before I gave it to him)..... Well I finally feel like I belong :) I was getting pretty close to a finished tiller when.... Boooooooooom!!!!! scared the Kaaaa-rap out of me :) The whole time I was working on it it felt exceptionally stiff and the physical weight was very light. I even backed it before my final tillering. I did some heat straighting and maybe that did it. I didn't think a piece of wood could be so loud!!! Glad I've got a half dozen bows in progress,,, back to work....
(http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c210/coaster500/Cherryboom002.jpg)
(http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c210/coaster500/Cherryboom001.jpg)
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Wow. good luck on your next ones!
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If the addiction hadn't "set in" I believe it has now! >:D
Scott
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you've finally been initiated, now go change your shorts and start a new bow >:D, :laugh:, Bub
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Sorry you lost that one Coaster and after taking the time to back it too, ouch.
I know that loud boom. Elm bow about 65#, floor tillered and tried to get stung for the first time on short string in the basement, in the
dark. Problem; I was stringing it backwards. Man that echo was loud in the dungeon.
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Oh my! By the looks of that break, it didn't give any warning at all! I would say you were long overdue for a little start. Now get back to work on the next one! >:D. Josh
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at least no one got hurt.
i was exercising a yew bow the other day then BAM!!! cracked me over the head and fractured the bone in my finger....bad day
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Looks like it went with authority.....
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It was pretty violent but no blood :)
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26 and 1 is a pretty good record, don't forget those safety glasses.
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Yep, cherry is pretty bad about that. Had one crack me right on top of the melon one day when I just had it to final draw, thats not something you forget. >:D
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That really bits. So you think the heat after backing made it fail?
I'd still be cleaning my shorts if that happened to me.
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I got the stave roughed got it bending a bit then used dry heat to straighten and even up the reflex in both limbs. I then added the rawhide so I'm not sure what made it blow. it was bending well and the tiller looked good.... the Boooom :)
Oh well Next!!!!
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I could be wrong and anyone please correct me if I am but I am guessing that the cherry was too dry. The heat treat may have taken it over the top. I had a cherry a couple years ago blow on me too. It was a hickory backed glue up I did and the board I got from a friend had been stored in his attic for some time. My thoughts at the time were it must have been too low moisture content because as I studied the remains, they sure were awefully dry. It could be that I had some grain run out too but I don't recall that being what caught my attention.
Get back in there and get er done ole boy. Danny