Splinter Repairs

[Wolftrail]

I'm fixing up a couple Wood bows now that have lifted a tiny splinter , one near the tips and the other in the fade area.

 The splinter has only lifted on the backing lam.

.............do I remove materiel else where in the limb to reduce stress in those damaged areas after the repair..?  or shoot the bow and see what transpires..? or make firewood..?  I have done a few repairs in the past and rarely do I get a 20% success rate.

[Pat B]

The back is where the tension is and where splinters commonly appear. Rounding corners and soft backings(rawhide, silk, linen). Grain runoffs will also cause splinters.

[Wolftrail]

Originally posted by Pat B:
The back is where the tension is and where splinters commonly appear. Rounding corners and soft backings(rawhide, silk, linen). Grain runoffs will also cause splinters.

I know that after building over 20 bows. And belly is compression.   My question was as stated above on how to proceed with repairing..

[Roy from Pa]

Soak it with thin super glue, clamp it down for a few minutes, then wrap with sinew.

[Eric Krewson]

I have done a dozen or so splinter fixes, I put super glue in the crack and then wrap the area with string serving material. I actually use a string server to get a tight wrap. After I get the wrap on I soak the serving with superglue until it won't hold anymore. These hold up very well for years.

 

[PEARL DRUMS]

Originally posted by Wolftrail:
 

Originally posted by Pat B:
The back is where the tension is and where splinters commonly appear. Rounding corners and soft backings(rawhide, silk, linen). Grain runoffs will also cause splinters.

I know that after building over 20 bows. And belly is compression.   My question was as stated above on how to proceed with repairing.. [/b]

You are rude and deserve no answers. Figure it out superstar.

[Wolftrail]

Originally posted by PEARL DRUMS:
 

Originally posted by Wolftrail:
   

Originally posted by Pat B:
The back is where the tension is and where splinters commonly appear. Rounding corners and soft backings(rawhide, silk, linen). Grain runoffs will also cause splinters.

I know that after building over 20 bows. And belly is compression.   My question was as stated above on how to proceed with repairing.. [/b]

You are rude and deserve no answers. Figure it out superstar. [/b]

We all have our moments, but like Roy and Eric mentioned their approach seems likely, and yes thats what I was thinking and thats what I have done in the past.  Their opinion after years of experience reinforces my guess's and methods of work.

Not trying to be rude.. I guess I did not understand Pat's post.

[mikkekeswick]

Firewood!
The main thing from problems like this is to figure out why they happened in the first place and then rectify the original problem on future bows. Once a bow lifts a splinter that would be it for me.

[Wolftrail]

I  made a fire today with old bow parts..    

[Eric Krewson]

I don't understand turning a good bow into firewood just because it needs a band-aid.

Almost all of the splinters I fixed on other peoples bows were on bows that popped a splinter after years of use, often in excess of 100k shots and a couple over 250K.

All wood bows will fail over time if you put enough arrows through them, it often takes more arrows than us normal shooters will ever launch. Some of the serious tournament shooters who use my bows put an astounding number of arrows through them.

Case in point; I made a really nice osage bow, killed the biggest buck of my life with it. After several years as my primary bow it got some weird fractures on the back, like frets on the belly but on the back.

 

Thinking it might blow, I took it to the belt sander, flattened the back and made it into a bamboo backed osage bow. Once again it was my primary bow.

After a few years of constant shooting it popped a splinter on the bamboo back so I put a band aid on it and continued shooting it. I gave it a band-aid about 6 years ago. I still shoot it every now and then but as I passed 70 it became a little too stout for me to shoot on a day to day basis.

Had I trashed this wonderful bow because of what I consider a minor problem it would have been a terrible waste.

     

It is an oldie;

     

[Roy from Pa]

A week before I headed to Iowa for deer, my boo splintered up. I patched it up, put a 1,000 shots through it and it was my primary bow in Iowa.

[mwosborn]

One man's bow is another man's firewood.  We humans often see things different from one another that is for sure.

Boy that osage turned dark Eric!  Looks like a cool bow.

[Wolftrail]

On this last bow I glued on a small lam over the splinter, first pull and she Exploded, lucky it did not hit my face needless to say the saw got the best of it..............  
 

[KenH]

The problem was gluing a lam of any size over the splinter rather than glue soaking and transverse wrapping as other have mentioned.

[Wolftrail]

Good point.