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Rawhide backed yew 55# at 26”

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Hamish:
Grain looks plenty straight enough, and no obvious pins let alone large knots. Backed, but still broke comprehensively in tension. Very frustrating.

superdav95:
That sucks kidder!  Mine recently exploded on me like this.  Mine was a violation in sapwood.  Just curious did you do much heat correction on this bow?  Yew dose not like to be heat corrected too much it gets brittle.  I’ve pushed the limits on yew in the past and paid the price with trying to heat correct too much. 

Kidder:

--- Quote from: superdav95 on April 17, 2023, 12:08:56 am ---That sucks kidder!  Mine recently exploded on me like this.  Mine was a violation in sapwood.  Just curious did you do much heat correction on this bow?  Yew dose not like to be heat corrected too much it gets brittle.  I’ve pushed the limits on yew in the past and paid the price with trying to heat correct too much.

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Minimal heat corrections as I recall. Some but not tons. I wish I had a moisture meter…

Pappy:
Man that stinks, I know Yew makes a great bow but over the years I have had that happen for no real reason I could see, guess that is where we came up with the saying a few years back 'Osage is King" "Yew is queen"  ;) :). I just finished one myself and have put a few hundred arrows through it but still think on this very thing from time to time. I have seen them go for no reason at all, guess they just didn't want to be a bow. :-\
 Pappy

Gordon:
My guess is you got too aggressive when thinning the sapwood. Even rawhide won't save the bow when that happens - I know this from experience.

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