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Everything’s checking and delaming
Russ:
Yeah…. I dunno. I’m pretty sure the wood was good. I think it’s my fault. I just want to make sure I can stop this from happening next time.
Buckskinner:
If you have hickory around, go cut one and split it into staves. I cut, split and painted ends of a hickory in January and had it dry in 6 weeks and a bow shortly after, very little set and turned out great.
Pat B:
Checking is a result of wood drying too quickly. Sealing the back and ends won't stop checking but it slows the rate of moisture loss which helps prevent checking. Check can happen in the belly but usually those belly checks aren't disastrous.
What are you using to seal with? How and where are you storing your bow wood while it dries.
On the one darker stave those checks are old. You can tell by the darkening in and around the checks. The other one looks like a round stave. If it still has a pith that pith will be where the check begins. On round staves you need to split or saw them in half, lengthwise and eliminate that pith by reducing the thickness.
Russ:
I should clarify, these two pictures are both side views of the staves. Those cracks are crackes down the side.
Pat I’m using Elmer’s glue to seal my staves. I heard it worked well, but I’m not so sure now lol! I store my staves standing up in a corner of my garage. Normally they are leaning on each other.
I the darker check is old the thing is though that it’s grown into the actual bending portion of the limb. I soaked them in CA glue so we will see what happens.
bownarra:
First thing is to get yourself a humidity meter and a thermometer.
then look up a table of e.m.c. levels.
Paraffin wax is the best sealer bar none!
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