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Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: rps3 on December 02, 2019, 02:08:21 pm

Title: osage and big check
Post by: rps3 on December 02, 2019, 02:08:21 pm: I abused this stave trying to get it straight. In hindsight, I would have been better off cutting it in half and flipping one end over and splicing. I steamed it 3 times and used dry heat at least 7 more sessions, it put up a fight. The checks opened up with the steaming and straightening. 68", low 50's draw weight at 29"

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Title: Re: osage and big check
Post by: rps3 on December 02, 2019, 02:10:15 pm: (https://i.imgur.com/a8sPDnw.jpg)
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Title: Re: osage and big check
Post by: rps3 on December 02, 2019, 02:11:39 pm: (https://i.imgur.com/YMZSPLv.jpg)
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Title: Re: osage and big check
Post by: PEARL DRUMS on December 02, 2019, 02:23:09 pm: Dang Bobert! Talk about beating a stave up. Looks like a great tiller job.
Title: Re: osage and big check
Post by: bjrogg on December 02, 2019, 02:38:51 pm: Lol. That look like you got the splitting wedges out. Like pearl said nice tiller. Good looking bow To.
Bjrogg
Title: Re: osage and big check
Post by: Pat B on December 02, 2019, 02:46:06 pm: Just fill it with super glue and keep shooting it. Like the others said, nice tiller. :OK
Title: Re: osage and big check
Post by: Eric Krewson on December 02, 2019, 03:06:19 pm: Looks like the crack goes all the way through. Put a piece of masking tape on the belly so the super glue won't run through and load up that back crack until it won't hold any more. I don't clamp super glued cracks.

If it were mine and I had some urac I would fill that crack full of urac and clamp it closed, urac would hold it. Any of the glues out there now, I don't know.
Title: Re: osage and big check
Post by: rps3 on December 02, 2019, 03:13:05 pm: Thanks Chris, I started to feel like I was really picking on this piece of wood and it might just not want to be a bow.

Pat, and Eric...The cracks do go all the way through and are already filled with super glue, and like you said Eric, no clamping. Its a pretty long bow and I think it will be just fine. Maybe even next years hunter.

Bj, I thought he same thing about the splitting wedges.
Title: Re: osage and big check
Post by: Hamish on December 02, 2019, 04:53:02 pm: Yep, its got a big check, but there's nothing wrong with that bow. In fact it looks pretty darn fine.
Title: Re: osage and big check
Post by: dylanholderman on December 02, 2019, 05:52:33 pm: man i would love to take that thing to one of my reenactment events just to drive the archery marshals up a wall (lol)
good work :OK
Title: Re: osage and big check
Post by: JW_Halverson on December 02, 2019, 05:57:34 pm: Don't waste your time or the superglue. Shoot it as is. I have one with super wide and deep checks and I tried to fill them with the thick gap filling superglue. It all fractured and has fallen out. So long as the check does not run out the limb or is along the belly/back plane you are all good to go!
Title: Re: osage and big check
Post by: bradsmith2010 on December 02, 2019, 08:29:21 pm: Nice unstrung profile )P(
Title: Re: osage and big check
Post by: George Tsoukalas on December 02, 2019, 09:20:59 pm: Very nice. I made a bow with wind shakes a few years ago. Still have it. I superglued and clamped it. Jawge
Title: Re: osage and big check
Post by: Hawkdancer on December 03, 2019, 12:02:54 am: For sure, quite a crack! It would definitely give an archery Marshall nightmares >:D! Hope you don't wind up holding 2 bows someday! Sounds like it should hold together, though!
Hawkdancer
Title: Re: osage and big check
Post by: bownarra on December 03, 2019, 01:24:42 am: Quote from: JW_Halverson on December 02, 2019, 05:57:34 pm
Don't waste your time or the superglue. Shoot it as is. I have one with super wide and deep checks and I tried to fill them with the thick gap filling superglue. It all fractured and has fallen out. So long as the check does not run out the limb or is along the belly/back plane you are all good to go!

Exactly a much better filler for wide checks is heated up epoxy mixed with sawdust.
It happened because the stave was not dry.
Title: Re: osage and big check
Post by: SLIMBOB on December 03, 2019, 06:48:33 am: I am in the no clamp camp. Just fill it and forget it it.
Title: Re: osage and big check
Post by: rps3 on December 03, 2019, 07:56:41 am: Thanks again. I should have mentioned in the one picture is the top split from the stave I used. I dont think the check was from the stave not being dry, but from asking for too much bend sideways in such a thick area.
Title: Re: osage and big check
Post by: Deerhunter21 on December 03, 2019, 08:06:19 am: I got 2 checks because i didn't seal my stave fast enough. their wide enough apart to just slip the tip in between! 8)
Title: Re: osage and big check
Post by: bradsmith2010 on December 03, 2019, 09:00:09 am: I think doing something to keep water out of the check,,,in hunting conditions would be good...