Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: Marc St Louis on March 28, 2015, 09:47:03 am
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Sometimes they just go boom
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Is it weird that it feels reassuring that even Marc St. Louis breaks bows every now and then? ???
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Yes, they do! Jawge
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I know that feeling. Delamination between the sapwood and core Marc?
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Was that yew Mark?
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Darksoul, i agree. No disrespect to u Marc😃
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Did pearly send you that pic and you posted it for him? I think your covering for him,cus we all know you don't break bows,and we all know "who"on here does :laugh:
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at least it wasnt just a crack,, pretty authoritative
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Yes it was a Yew warbow I was working on, I say warbow but it was only going to be 80#. It took me a day to find all the pieces, there may still be some small pieces kicking around. I had it tillered to 26 and when I took it to 28 she let go. It had hardly lost any of the reflex it had started out with. Could be my shop was too dry
Definitely not delam.
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Yup I recognise that...
But it's a very good quality break >:D
Del
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Yep, too dry. Been there with yew :(
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there goes another one... :(
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I have broken a lot of yew bows when they dried out.
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Soooooo what your saying is osage truly is King? Yah, I get it now...;)
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Soooooo what your saying is osage truly is King? Yah, I get it now...;)
They are all Kings in their own right
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Soooooo what your saying is osage truly is King? Yah, I get it now...;)
They are all Kings in their own right
Spoken like a true whitewood bowyer!
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well back to the old drawing board ;)
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Whoa, I don't feel so bad now breaking them.
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Whoa, I don't feel so bad now breaking them.
ditto... >:D >:D
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I broke one today, more or less purposely. It had lifted a sliver where the grain went around a small knot. (Osage, BTW;) I just decided to shoot it till it broke. It was shooting nicely, then came the tick. On the next shot I released quickly to the tune of another tick. Third shot it blew.
For the record, like the few other bows I have had break at full draw, all the pieces when toward the target--away from me--except the handle and lower limb, which just stayed in my hand.
Jim Davis
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Yep ,they do. Seems Yew will do it more [all of the sudden] than some woods I have worked with. ;)
Pappy
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Yes I have had Osage blow explosively before as well. This is the first Yew bow to break on me.
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Yes I have had Osage blow also, but usually you are expecting trouble for one reason or another on Osage, at least that has been my experience, the yew I have had blow I still see no reason why, other than it's just wood. :) The Yew I have had blow is a lot like ERC, very exciting blow up. ;) :) :) :)
Pappy
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Well at least that is one thing that has never and probably never will have happen to this poor backwoods country boy that lives in the middle of the great black swamp cause there is no yew here and no money to buy it with
So no worry about breaking yew here
Sorry it did not turn out better for you !