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RyanY:
I can't say I have a lot of experience with cracks like that but my guess is that the position of it on the edge of that turn is going to give you some problems if it's not taken care of. My worry if you try to remove it would be where the crack leads in the bow limb. If you pulled the crack off would it pop off the limb or continue into it?
Dean Marlow:
After sleeping on it again I am going to to take it down on the back to the edge crack and see what we have. If it stops there and the belly crack is seperate we will try and use some thin super glue on it. Dean
JackCrafty:
Ouch! Cracks like that will put a damper on your day. Hope you are able to save that limb. :o
Dean Marlow:
I went ahead and worked on the edge crack this morning and completely removed it. But my limb there is only 1-1/8" wide at that spot. It is a little above midlimb. It is going to make it a slow taper to the tips now. I am going to narrow the the bow from the fades to 1-3/8" wide and have it taper from the fades to the tips now because of that crack. I went ahead today and narrowed the tip on the other limb and tapered it as close as I could to the the other limb and will take some more belly wood off of it getting it as close in thickness and width. I will get it to floor tillering then we are going to have to get the heat gun and do some correcting. I do have a form but with all the wiggles in it I am going to have to figure out another way to try and get these limbs half way even.
Dean Marlow:
Here is what I have to work with when it is time to straighten. One limb is slightly reflexed then the stave takes a big dip right in the handle area going towards the right limb. Open to any bodies ideas on how and where to start on this thing.
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