Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: lesken2011 on October 28, 2012, 06:51:45 pm
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I just finished an oak backed ipe bow for the son of my local taxidermist. It is 60" ttt and 35#@25". I was on the patio shooting it in some more today and noticed some tiny cracks above the handle. Not really compression-type cracks. Here is a pic. (http://www.traditionalbowman.com/hwdphotos/uploads/62/2/d6dgo2quv00ck8.jpg)
Here it is braced.
(http://www.traditionalbowman.com/hwdphotos/uploads/62/2/72m8hnkeaoxzq4.jpg)
Do you think I am safe to give it to him at such a low draw weight?
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It just dawned on me. I guess this answers my question on this post.
http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php/topic,35456.msg466758.html#msg466758
This is the same bow. This is the limb I took a little too much off of. Although I tillered it to correct the bend. Apparently there was just too much stress on this limb, hence the unusual crack striations. Do you think it is an imminent failure with a dense wood like ipe? If it fails, do you think it will explode or just fold over with the white oak back. I can make him another if it breaks. I just don't want him to get hurt.
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Yup..those are frets alright Kenny...its hard to say how much longer that'll last..could go a long time or in the next hundred...I'd make him another one cus my conscious just would not allow giving that to somebody else.
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I already laid another one out, Blackhawk. I feel the same way. Well, the ole sayin live and learn seems to apply a lot to me lately. Sigh!!
Thanks for the feedback.
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THEY ARE STRESS CRACKS. Show it to him and tell him it something happens because of the cracks you'll replace it.
If it's low weight it should be OK.