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Heat treating after tillering
superdav95:
--- Quote from: Eric Krewson on February 03, 2023, 08:53:22 am ---I use any osage I have, I back substandard light weight osage with bamboo glued in a reflex. In spite of the glued in reflex several of these bows took set and were very poor performers.
I had made one of these BBOs to auction off at a local tournament to raise money for the Alabama Childern's Hospital, the time was closing in and I had a bow that didn't meet my standards. Up to this point I hadn't done much heat treating but decided to give it a try, I put the bow on my reflex form and toasted the limbs to a light brown. The change was amazing, I did have to retiller the bow to get the poundage back down where it was, the bow had turned into a rocket launcher.
The bow raised a good amount of money for the cause, I kept track of the bow through the years, it kept its reflex and initial poundage and has remained a top-notch performer. I made a matching set of arrows to go with the bow so the bidders could test shoot the bow and see what a good shooter it was.
The young lady whose Granddad bought her the bow is probably still shooting it today.
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The is a great story and great cause. Interesting that you heat treat the belly after glue up of the boo backing tillered bow. Did the heat not affect the glue up? It’s cool that it worked out well. How did you do the heating of the belly and not affect the glue? I’d like to know. Thanks for posting.
Eric Krewson:
I made that bow back in the Urac 185 days, the glue is bomb proof, I frequently made heat adjustments to bows I glued up with the stuff and never had a delamination.
superdav95:
Ah yes that makes sense. I guess one could do the same but in different order using 2 part epoxy laminate glue. You could heat treat the Osage lam prior to glue up. This may be something I will have to try down the road soon. Thanks for posting
Eric Krewson:
I lost count of how many bows I donated to this cause, I did it every year for a while until my bow building wound down. I have a BBO on the wall of my shop right now that was headed to the auction but a bad hip replacement shut down my tournament participation, I sold my camper and became a homebody.
On a sad footnote; I donated a copperhead backed osage bow with all the bells and whistles, the top bid was $500. I handed 5 crisp $100 bills to the club president to add to the tournament proceeds that would be donated to the Childrens Hospital, the total was $3500.
A few weeks later the hospital representative said she never got the money, a member who was formerly a prison warden checked the paper trail and found out the woman who was president had been stealing the club proceeds for years. There was a paper trail of $10,000 that was missing, there was no accounting for any cash money that had been stolen, my $500 was just gone.
The woman was given a choice of paying back the $10,000 or going to jail, she did pay the money back over time. She had probably stolen at least that much in cash but there was no way to prove it. She and her family were permanently banned from any and all tournaments in the area. Her husband was one of those fake Navy Seals we hear so much about so lies and deception ran in their family.
superdav95:
Wow she got off easy I would say. At least the cause got some of the money back.
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