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episaacs:
I have a few staves that have checking between the growth rings.  If this can't be avoided in the layout of the bow, what do you do to handle this problem?  The simplest solution would seem to be to glue them together with perhaps epoxy ???

Pat B:
Sounds more like wind shakes than checking. That is a result of stresses in the live tree caused by heavy winds. I would be leery of the wood for bows. Someone else may have a different opinion.     Pat

episaacs:
These cracks only appeared after drying for some months.

Pat B:
The only time I've see this while wood was drying was on some locust I cut dead standing. After a drying period I began to make a bow but never got to the shooting stage before it went. I figured it was a fungi that had gotten into the early rings and deteriorated them.    Pat

episaacs:
Interesting!  I just had assumed they were drying checks, though numerous searches have turned up nothing about them ???

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