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Mechslasher:
i took a bow out to shoot a couple weeks ago and the damn thing snapped across the back, classic tension failure.  i built the bow about a year and a half ago.  it was well shot in, maybe 500 or so arrows.  i couldn't figure out why it let go all of a sudden then it hit me when i was working in my shop the other day, humidity.  my shop is in my house so it's heated and cooled with central air.  i'm thinking i may be drying my bows out and making them brittle.  anyone else ever had this problem??

Hillbilly:
Chris, I usually have the opposite problem, trying to keep them from soaking up moisture until they're like noodles. I don't have A/C though.

Pappy:
Mine will sometime pick up a little weight if they stay inside the house but I don't think
the humidity is low enough in my house to get any wood to dry.I have overdried Ash in the hot box,at least I think that is what happened,I had several snap for no other apparent reason
dry rot or just overdried. :)
   Pappy

bowstick:
This happened to me once. I had made a vine maple.  Stored it inside the house for quite some time... I didnt realize it until after it broke but the wood was incredibly dry, the bow snapped in 3 places.  It was a stave I had split myself too.  The bow had been shot plenty of times before... but just got too dry.  This was when I lived in WA. State... since then I have moved to the east coast, and I couldnt dry a bow out if I tried :)

Justin

mullet:
  Yep,Same with me.I have a room I keep my bows and soon to be bows in the final stage of tillering.I've had a yew and 2 cedars snap with very little flexing while tillering.They were real dry.My air conditioning runs about 350 days of the year 24 hours.I started putting them back in the shop when I was almost finished.

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