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Everything’s checking and delaming
Del the cat:
I feel your pain, sometimes a bad ring due to disease or a dry year/high wind etc can just ruin a stave... sometimes no amount of care and attention will stop it. Some we win some we lose... nature of the game... nature of life.
Oooh I've gone all philosophical ::)
Something will turn up, it generally does :)
Del
BowEd:
I agree with Pat B here.Somehow you've run into a very dry/low humidity type of weather to get that to happen.
Allyn T:
Deerhunter if you make it to mojam I'll bring some hickory staves for you.
superdav95:
That sucks man. I had some of mine split on me too this year. Did the same as last year with the poly on the back and ends but lost a couple. I agree with Ed you must have had a crazy dry spell to get it to split and check like that. I’ve never used Elmer’s for sealer but also heard it’s supposed to be good. I use poly and brush it on heavy. I also stand mine up in the corner of my garage like you. I leave mine lots long too as I know that some will split a bit at the end so I have room to work with as far as length goes. If you need a stave that’s clean I can send ya one that’s dry and free of splits. It would have to be mailed as I’m in Ontario Canada 🇨🇦 Let me know.
Eric Krewson:
The osage looks like a wind shake opening up, if so the crack was always there and just opened up more while drying.
The other one looks like inferior wood, it has been my experience that only inferior wood checks from the side, every bow I made with side check wood failed.
Where do you dry your wood? Enclosed out buildings, hot cars and attics will ruin you wood, I found out the hard way early on in my bow making journey.
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