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Small cracks across osage pin knots? (torture test added)

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bassman211:
I couple months a go I built a non working handle 45lb 25 inch draw  58 inch Osage self bow  that lifted a splinter at a knot cluster. I  soaked it with crazy  glue , and wrapped it  with hide glue soaked sinew. So far so good. Watching how you abused your bow makes me think I will be all right with mine for a long time to come.

RyanY:
I think arguments could be made both ways about a crack like that. Definitely some non contiguous fibers between the knots that could be a potential point of failure. Being further off the back might mean slightly more tension in that area being further from the neutral plane. But with the width following the grain, you’re not relying on much strength from that area and the crack doesn’t interrupt many fibers at all. Even after being pulled so far, I’m not sure I’d be able to trust a crack like that. Would be interesting to have kept it around to pull on every once in a while to see if it ever let go.

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