Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: soy on April 01, 2013, 10:16:07 pm
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What is going on here??I have these pockets of this brown almost looks like Sap that has been caramelized in the early wood...will this cause structural instability in the form of laminar separation?
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I've never seen anything like that before. Does it keep going down through the rings or could you remove a few and get below it?
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Look at the side grain and see if there is any seperation between groth rings. Wind shakes are delaminations that discolor. Is "that spot" limited to that spot?
You need to seal that back. I already see a drying check I think, just to the left of "that spot".
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I've worked Black Cherry that had sap pockets that kinda looked like that, but never Osage.
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Sapsuckers will leave damage like that in yew, and other woods. Not sure if they would go aafter osage. Maybe woodpecker pulled out one of them wasp grubs.
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Look at the side grain and see if there is any seperation between groth rings. Wind shakes are delaminations that discolor. Is "that spot" limited to that spot?
You need to seal that back. I already see a drying check I think, just to the left of "that spot".
I agree with pat I see the crack forming you need to take the rings down till the cracks gone and seal it immediately before it goes down to deep
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there are multiple drying checks it is on the belly side I cut this in half early and didn't seal the belly :-[ is not limited to that 1 spot there are multiple spots in a couple growth ring Period