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Kidder:
This one takes the cake for me. This stave has resisted being a bow from the second I laid eyes on it. I’ve still managed to get about 200 arrows through it though and it shoots so dang well I hate to let it win.
It started with heat bending. The stave had reflex out of the handle on the top limb and deflex in the lower limb. So I decided to use dry heat to take out the deflex. Except I used too much clamping pressure and not enough heat and caused a tension break in the belly resulting in a hinge that I’ve been chasing ever since which has now caused many tiny frets. Then I was recurving the tips and threw a splinter. Chased that away but it wouldn’t hold its shape so I used some thin yew strips to make an underlay. Turned out nice and really holds the recurve. Then I applied sinew to the bow. Put the first layer on, applied some reflex with a string and left it on the counter overnight. Somehow it fell and broke the tip nearly clean through. But that didn’t stop me. I injected TB3, clamped it and did a sinew wrap. Finally a couple weeks ago I decided I wanted to try to chase the hinge away so strung it to check the tiller, took a couple draws, and BANG! The sinew layer’s delaminated! So it wins and gets to be a wall hanger. For now at least… I guess I’d rather break the same bow 4 times than 4 different bows 😂

M2A:
Took a while to find some of that beech as it was buried deep in the corner of shame.
However after the above pics and maybe 20 F/D shots I wanted to take a few scrapes from the top libs to even things up. The bow blew up on the tillering tree in my shop that night. It wAS  duck and cover type moment as the top limb went in several directions. Looked at the scale afterwards and it was showing the max weight was 58 lbs i think and I know it was still a few inches short of full draw. No excuses other than I was not paying attention to the draw weight as much as I was trying to have a good tiller. Think things would have been ok at 50 lbs but should have had a target weight more like 45lbs. Combined with trapping the back on a wood that is already a bit weak in tension. It was a good reminder to pay attention to what your doing.   

IMG_5327 by Mike Allridge, on Flickr     

Marc St Louis:
How about this one

bjrogg:
Certainly not the Full Draws I’m use to seeing from you Marc.

A little confusing but I’m thinking a belly delaminating?

Bjrogg

Awesome picture though.

bassman211:
Over the years I have dam near filled a 55 gallon drum with broken bows, but in the last 10 years I have broken very few. Belly frets count as broken to me also. I use them for tomato stakes.

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