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MR Copy Explodes on the tiller at 100#
adb:
I've had a couple heavy (one 120#) tri-lams explode on the tiller. It's quite an event! No ticks, no creaks... just KABOOMSKI!!!
Sorry for your loss, Del. Do you think a rawhide backing might have helped?
JW_Halverson:
Wow! What an action shot!
I like the way you autopsied the remaining corpse to find out what went wrong rather than just having a weinie roast on the way to the next stave. Great way to make the most of every situation, Del.
Meet me in Tennessee next year at the Classic, Del, I'll bring my one and only piece of yew (THANK YOU MULLET!!). You are the only one I want to mentor me thru my first yew bow!
mullet:
I went back and looked at the video again. It looks like when you cranked it back, and I'd have to say,really fast,, it was not bending on the left limb just past the handle grip. The left limb was definitely not keeping up with the right limb.
Del the cat:
--- Quote from: mullet on July 11, 2013, 11:15:15 pm ---I went back and looked at the video again. It looks like when you cranked it back, and I'd have to say,really fast,, it was not bending on the left limb just past the handle grip. The left limb was definitely not keeping up with the right limb.
--- End quote ---
Yeah the left limb was definitely stiffer.
I was really just getting to the point where I was going to start tillering.
With cleaner flatter backed billets, I would have matched the backs better and I wouldn't have needed to rasp one down to match the other.
Ironically I glued 'em up to match the heart/sap boundary so it would look good >:( ... in retrospect I should have glued 'em to to match the back surface of the sapwood.
Maybe I'll learn for the next one... ::)
Del
Del the cat:
--- Quote from: JW_Halverson on July 11, 2013, 10:29:32 pm ---Wow! What an action shot!
I like the way you autopsied the remaining corpse to find out what went wrong rather than just having a weinie roast on the way to the next stave. Great way to make the most of every situation, Del.
Meet me in Tennessee next year at the Classic, Del, I'll bring my one and only piece of yew (THANK YOU MULLET!!). You are the only one I want to mentor me thru my first yew bow!
--- End quote ---
Yup, I'm looking forward to that, I won't have to worry about getting that warbow on the plane now ::).
It's been a funny week, the day before it exploded I had an equiry from a TV company researcher about possibly contributing on a forthcoming series 8) (Shhhh... don't tel the others, as I don't supose it will come to anthing) So I was rather 'up' ;D then kabooom :( but we learn to bounce back pretty quick.
Del
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