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Offline Danzn Bar

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Re: "Juno" - Sinew Backed Juniper 48# @ 26" (Pic Heavy) BROKE!!! PG 3
« Reply #45 on: September 25, 2016, 07:57:15 am »
Thanks, guys. I thought about salvaging the skins and sinew. I decided that I'm going to glue it back together and make a bow rack out of it.

Good idea, never though about repurposing it.....cool
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Offline Carson (CMB)

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Re: "Juno" - Sinew Backed Juniper 48# @ 26" (Pic Heavy) BROKE!!! PG 3
« Reply #46 on: September 25, 2016, 12:54:49 pm »
That's a heartbreaker. Dont see them break like that very often.

Well, way to have a good attitude about it. Hope you like that yew.  :)
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Offline Eric Garza

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Re: "Juno" - Sinew Backed Juniper 48# @ 26" (Pic Heavy) BROKE!!! PG 3
« Reply #47 on: September 25, 2016, 05:30:36 pm »
Yeah, I had a hard maple fail on me because of a knot in the handle last year. I've become completely intolerant of knots anywhere in my bows, as I detest investing all the effort making them only to hear that sickening **CRACKKKK**. And the junipers really explode when they go, so good thing you weren't close by and ended up with a sliver of wood jabbed in your eye.

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Re: "Juno" - Sinew Backed Juniper 48# @ 26" (Pic Heavy) BROKE!!! PG 3
« Reply #48 on: September 25, 2016, 06:47:11 pm »
You have my deepest condolences for you loss, she was a beauty. We look forward to seeing your yew bow.

Eric.
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Re: "Juno" - Sinew Backed Juniper 48# @ 26" (Pic Heavy) BROKE!!! PG 3
« Reply #49 on: October 26, 2016, 10:50:21 pm »
 That is a total bummer that she blew up,  but it is a true judge of character that you shared that with everybody . 
You get my vote for producing a great ball bow,  and then sharing it's  demise .
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Re: "Juno" - Sinew Backed Juniper 48# @ 26" (Pic Heavy) BROKE!!! PG 3
« Reply #50 on: October 27, 2016, 01:55:59 am »
Juniper sinew makes my favorite bow, but I know exactly what you mean when the bow gains weight, shoots faster than ever then blows up. I keep my bows in a climate control room and use almost all perfect knot free juniper. 

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Re: "Juno" - Sinew Backed Juniper 48# @ 26" (Pic Heavy) BROKE!!! PG 3
« Reply #51 on: October 27, 2016, 07:41:05 am »
That has got to be the most beautiful bow rack I have ever seen!!  ::) ;)
That is a lesson to me too cause I would have thought exactly what you did about the stiff handle and sinew.
Thanks again for keepin us updated and let us see that finished rack someday please. I just might have a "rack" layin around here too.
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Re: "Juno" - Sinew Backed Juniper 48# @ 26" (Pic Heavy) BROKE!!! PG 3
« Reply #52 on: October 27, 2016, 08:05:08 am »
I had missed this one and was just fixing to tell how beautiful it is, now I guess I can say WAS beautiful, to bad that was a sweet looking bow. :(  Sorry for your loss but as we all know, it does happen. :)
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Re: "Juno" - Sinew Backed Juniper 48# @ 26" (Pic Heavy) BROKE!!! PG 3
« Reply #53 on: October 27, 2016, 10:52:37 am »
That is a incredible job!!!   Art in the form of a weapon, I think the cotton mouth snake skins are the best I have seen!   Cotton mouths are a lot more scarce and hard to find than people think here in the Carolinas! THANKS for showing your bow and by the way your photographs are excellant. I can see some very good details of what I want to try with my first bow that I did not understand before!
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Re: "Juno" - Sinew Backed Juniper 48# @ 26" (Pic Heavy) BROKE!!! PG 3
« Reply #54 on: October 27, 2016, 07:38:29 pm »
Bill, I hate it when they break at that stage of the game. Really hate to see that. Maybe save both limbs for a three piece take-down?
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