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checking splits in sapwood, is there a cure?

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RuddyDarter:
Here is where I am on the topic bow,( I pulled the string down a bit crook, so it is a little off centre.) Its pegged on 30" and then a mad rush for the camera  :D.
(Bottom limb is left, it looks like it hinges a bit on the outer top limb but that's where the light from the window stops and also the sapwood comes down more at that same point.)
Perhaps a little off mid bottom limb either side of that central knot, and the last five or so inches on the limb end?
And a pic drawn to 31+( found someone to hold camera),
RuddyDarter.

Heffalump:

--- Quote from: RuddyDarter on November 10, 2015, 02:12:12 pm ---Hi John,
Ha-ha, the camera ( my only mobile phone pegged to the boss) services intact thankfully, I'm typing on it now...I was more fearfull than you John!  ;D
I feel any warranty or obligation would be now void after me shortening it, and besides I'm really not out to rake any muck, which it would look like on my part if I started bringing names into it, by all accounts he is a really good chap and is a talented bowyer which is not in question. I'm  just looking for a solution to this potential problem.
 I think the best solution for me would be to go ahead and retiller the tips accordingly which would lessen stress at that side shake, and while braced (stand on string and draw it up) introduce some more slow drying epoxy into the shake on the back that's nearest the nock and unbrace and allow to dry. It's the lower limb so I can allow that tip to be a little stiffer. Seems like the best compromise to me(?).
I'm happy to stand corrected if an alternative remedy is suggested  :D
A little ticked off because of issues on all my bows recently, and a major sapwood splinter lift on my 140 :-\, but getting on with sorting them out. (Can a bloom of sapwood be successfully introduced to a bow of this kind of weight?)

RuddyDarter

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Hola Mr.Ruddy,

probably a gude question for Del to answer, or any other of the very talented bowyers that frequent this forum and work at these sort of heroic bow weights,..... but as a humble heavy-bow archer and by extension (see what I did there)? ::) ....the guy that would be chancing a phizzog full of yew splinters if everything went "tits up", I'd say that's a big (cue Dr.Evil voiceover here)..."NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO".... on that one matey  ;)

Do buy another GoPro for the butt at the other end of the field (looking forward enormously now to the footage of the arrow kills one of these) and keep us posted on your experimental repair/test-pilot exploits on this one, very interesting thread.

Yours in safety goggles,

JT  8)

RuddyDarter:
Thanks Heffalump, I was thinking the same.., I was hoping someone would say " yeah..no problem, just need some spit and a chewed toffee"  :D ,I glued it with superglue as best I could down the cracks and slow drying epoxy and linen cloth in the area that dipped in(so no gap under the binding), and bound around with linen thread and epoxy and ended up with this subtle fix that I don't think anyone would notice unless it was pointed out to them in good daylight...maybe hold for a few more arrows(?)..
This is the 140 bow I was referring to.
And a pic of where I am on the topic bow, the shakes seem stable and not a problem as it is.(pegged at 30")

RuddyDarter.

WillS:
Blooms are perfectly safe at that weight mate - not sure if you're aware of a Czech bowyer called Pavel but he's a master of setting blooms into bows over 140lb.  He doesn't use rounded blooms but straight edged rectangular ones, a good 8" or so long.  Set them in with a 2 part epoxy and leave for over 48hr and you will be fine.  I've got a few photos of his blooms in a 150lb bow if you need them, but its fairly straightforward.

WillS:
Just spotted you said sapwood.... D'oh!  Never mind. I'm sure it would work anyway though provided the length of the bloom is good enough. 

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