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Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: luke the drifter on November 30, 2011, 09:42:04 pm

Title: crack in the ring layers
Post by: luke the drifter on November 30, 2011, 09:42:04 pm

here is my dilemma.  about half way up the stave and if you look at it from the side, i have a crack about three of four inches long.  it appears to be a rotten spot.  the length of the affected area is no more than four or five inches.  for lack of better description, it is a layered crack(delineating?).
the top of the area and the bottom are in great shape around it.  any ideas or is it a lost cause?

Title: Re: crack in the ring layers
Post by: PEARL DRUMS on November 30, 2011, 10:03:51 pm

Pics

Title: Re: crack in the ring layers
Post by: johnston on November 30, 2011, 10:16:12 pm

What Pearlie said.

Lane

Title: Re: crack in the ring layers
Post by: Keenan on November 30, 2011, 10:46:49 pm

What kind of wood?  May be wind shake.

Title: Re: crack in the ring layers
Post by: JW_Halverson on December 01, 2011, 12:21:14 am

Would it be like the growthrings were seperated?  Kinda like when effing glass delaminates?

Title: Re: crack in the ring layers
Post by: Pat B on December 01, 2011, 12:46:08 am

Sounds like wind shakes to me too.  It is a delamination between growthrings caused by the tree being torqued by strong winds or possibly when the tree was felled. Sometimes you get only a small shallow one in a stave but sometimes it runs from side to side.