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Russ:
I would probably say a combination. you said the horn was cracked. horn can take a lot of stress according to bownarra. the bow was stressed a bit more than it should have in the sal, but it should have still survived. so, crack + a little too much reflex on sal + limb twisting = broken bow in my mind.

bownarra:
That design flaw (reflexed sal) would possibly lead to a delam of the horn core joint. The crack in the horn appears to have been the problem that caused your failure. Of course it is hard to say for sure from the other side of a computer! I never had the bow in my hands so take whatever I say with a pinch of salt :)

DC:
Once everything is soaked off I'll post pictures of the horn. It may show something. I'm not 100% sure the cracked limb is the broken one but we'll see. The sinew is all off and one piece of the horn is off. I see what you mean by don't wait for the horn to soak off. The good limb is hardly showing any sign of coming off.

DC:
I gave up waiting ;D here's some more pictures. Everything is oriented as it was. I'm pretty sure this was the cracked horn. I thought the CA would show but the horn flakes much like the CA when it breaks. It looks like it broke along the cracks but I think it would do that no matter how it actually started. The thing that makes me think that the horn broke is that all the pieces were still nicely glued in the gooving. It didn't just collapse like I've heard horn bows do. It went off with a bang and that centre piece was stuck in my rubber floor mat.

Russ:
yeah, to me that looks like compression failure in two places among the horn

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