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Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: Joec123able on January 15, 2014, 11:24:32 pm

Title: Fixable ?
Post by: Joec123able on January 15, 2014, 11:24:32 pm

So about a month and a half ago I steamed this handle to try and align the tips when I clamped it down it half cracked in a weird way I then just through it on the floor and then left it til now. Now does it look fixable ? Hopefully because this thing has a ton of character It would seem obvious that I could just clamp it down but the handle has a lot of checks in it

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(http://i1354.photobucket.com/albums/q681/joec123able/B56FF3E4-1F26-4DB7-9C6F-FF636E33F0D2-787-0000009B03E7CA82_zps96c746df.jpg)

Title: Re: Fixable ?
Post by: Zion on January 15, 2014, 11:28:29 pm

You could pop that off and glue on a new riser

Title: Re: Fixable ?
Post by: Bryce on January 15, 2014, 11:35:11 pm

pour some glue down in there and clamp it up.

Title: Re: Fixable ?
Post by: Pat B on January 15, 2014, 11:50:17 pm

How thick is the limb between the crack and the back of the stave?

Title: Re: Fixable ?
Post by: Joec123able on January 15, 2014, 11:55:00 pm

Well it's basically impossible to clamp I cannot for the life of me get it clamped since the crack is right in the fade area it won't clamp with the odd angle so I guess the only option is pop it off

Title: Re: Fixable ?
Post by: Blaflair2 on January 16, 2014, 02:53:49 am

Did the same thing yesturday! I popped it and glued on a different piece. U need to make sure u have an island to glue the block on.

Title: Re: Fixable ?
Post by: bubby on January 16, 2014, 03:20:28 am

Get an innertube run some glue in it and wrap it up snug

Title: Re: Fixable ?
Post by: simson on January 16, 2014, 05:50:37 am

I would warm (notheat) it up, let run in some epoxi (gets fluid when warm), clamp in vice and wait 24 hours.
that should make the job.

Title: Re: Fixable ?
Post by: Pappy on January 16, 2014, 06:44:21 am

Super glue and clamp in a vice is what I would do, it is on the compression side so shouldn't be a problem.  :)
 Pappy

Title: Re: Fixable ?
Post by: Eric Krewson on January 16, 2014, 10:47:35 am

That is pretty bad, I wouldn't trust it and suspect it will delaminate even with glue in the crack.

I made an errant cut with my band saw on a really fine osage stave a while back, put the stave back for years then decided to fix it.

I only had 1/2" thickness of handle area to work with so I glued on 1/8" strips to start. Once I got the handle up to about  3/4" in thickness I glued on a thicker piece to complete the new handle depth. I used Urac for glue.

You have to feather these strips into the limbs to keep them from popping off.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v181/ekrewson/bow%20making/bondofixhandle.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/ekrewson/media/bow%20making/bondofixhandle.jpg.html) 

I made this bow in 2008, it is still shooting with no handle problems.