Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: PEARL DRUMS on February 22, 2016, 10:13:48 am
-
I've read a few times over the years that URAC and/or Uni-Bond joints can safely be warmed up and manipulated. This weekend I took a bow off my rack I never finished, ended up falling out of love with it. I cut 3" off the length and needed to add a bit of reflex back in as its an RD. I wasn't concerned about wrecking the bow, it was either going to work or not work. It worked, twice. Just some food for thought if you find yourself in a spot similar to mine.
-
Interesting, how long did you steam it for?
-
10 minutes, I wanted to go 20-30, but knew better than to risk it.
-
I guess you'll see once you string it backup
-
Yea, you will have to let us know how it turns out
-
I strung it up an hour later. Shot it bunches yesterday, just lovely now.
-
Good info right there Pearl
-
That's good to know. That stuff adheres to wood like crazy. I just finished a wood lam bow that I put a handle overlay on. After rasping and sanding it smooth, there still was a little ring of Unibond around it that I tried to remove because it doesn't take the color of aniline dye well. I scraped and sanded until I put a dish in the surrounding wood and still couldn't get rid of it. Finally gave up. ::)
-
Nice save, Pearlie. What wood is the belly? ...and how much bend did you put in and how much remains?
-
Its yew, paduk and boo, Pat. Its the same tri lam I posted last summer/fall. It was 69" ntn then. Now its 64" ntn and shoots much better. It held over half what you see. I'm sure a longer steam would have been much better in that regard, but I'm not a gambling man and a bit of reflex was good enough for me.