hickory set and splinter

[flungonin]

I have a stave hickory that has taken a couple of inches set. I heard that if it's put in water that it will regain it's natural form. Also steaming it to straighten it back out. My concern is steaming it might make it to dry brittle. The handle does bend and it's only pulling #43 at 28.
  Secondly I have a #100 Warbow that has a splinter in the topbend of bow. The bows handle is completly round the limbs are massive pyramid shaped and bend drastically back toward the archer the last 12 inch of the bow. 68 inch bow. I have read where super glue/gel wroks on some or most splinters but this is on a bend and it's on a heavy bow.

[John Lipinski]

personally, I would leave the warbow and accept it as a loss; dealing with that much poundage is fairly scary. If you draw it back and it snaps, you could get yourself into a world of hurt.

Others chime in as I am not as experienced

Pictures will help

[Aznboi3644]

Hickory loves being dry.

I keep my hickory bow (45@26") next to my water heater to keep the MC low.

I'd heat treat an inch or two of reflex into the bow and retiller after.

I had 2" of set with my bow before heat treating and after the heat the bow became a really fast shoot and settles down to zero set with only 1.5" string follow.

[Roy Steele]

Once your gets set in it it's there. Damaged wood cells is what caused it and they can't be repaired.
   With war bow just keep it to look at. Thata a lot of poundage. Not wort trusting any prepair.I seen so bad wounds for high poundage bows.

[okie64]

I would heat-treat a couple inches of reflex into your hickory bow. Hickory performs better at low mc than probably any other wood. It will gain 8-10 lbs of weight with heat-treating. I dont know about your warbow, I have never dealt with that kind of poundage before. I just fixed a splinter on a hickory bow a few days ago. The guys on here told me to wrap it with dental floss and superglue. I'll let you know how it turns out.

[John Scifres]

Sometimes set can be "fixed" but don't expect a miracle.

Here's one I made better:    Fixit  

I'd lighten up the wanted to take a chance on fixing the splinter.