A little tripped up

[bowhntineverythingnh03743]

Tripped on a cord and dropped my riser... Is this going to be a huge issue???

 

[rkmnt2]

This looks like the fade of a longbow riser. I say this because I've soooo been there!!
Functionally, it should be fine. You'll end up with a little more glue there than you planned is all.

[Crooked Stic]

I would think that if you had a small pile of sanding dust at the time of glue up you could mix smooth-on and apply it to that area. Just for cosmetic effects. any excess will squeeze out when pressure is applied. I have broken those thin corners before and CA glued them back --a little tedious though.

[LittleBen]

If you could find the chipped off piece, you could just superglue it on. As said before I think it's going to be cosmetic, so it you can superglue the piece back in you'd be in business.

[monterey]

Or, you could shorten the riser length on both ends.  It's going to change your draw weight though so think that through first.

I like the glue sawdust filler idea.

[Roy from Pa]

Could you just cut that jagged corner off at an angle and glue on another small piece of wood of the same material and then shape it?

[Bowjunkie]

I did that on my last glue up, DURING glue up. I dropped riser and all lams, all covered in glue... busted two opposite corners. I set it aside.... I'll use it on a kids bow or something... and whipped out another in about 15 minutes and finished the glue up. I'm a dang perfectionist though... although the voids would have filled with glue and been fine, aestetically it would have bothered me, so I made another.

[Roy from Pa]

DURING glue up. I dropped riser and all lams, all covered in glue... busted two opposite corners.

Perfectionist huh? LOL

[jess stuart]

Wonder if one could shorten the riser an equal amount on each end, reshape and add a powerlam to regain the weight loss from shortening the riser? Just trying to think of another option even though those put forward are all good ones.

[kevinbarry]

What crooked stic said.

[MoeM]

Guess it won`t make problems but if you wan`t to do a perfect rapair you could regrind both sides and add a plam (1), I`d choose a piece of glass, modifie your stack (2)or just leave it and get ~4# less (3)...
This usually happens too my fades when I`m too fast on the spindlesander   :rolleyes: