What do you do with a broken bow?

[Matthew Bolton]

Long story short the riser on my Ben Pearson hunter cracked while I was drawing it back today. What can be done with the old thing?

[Cyclic-Rivers]

Contact the bow hospital.  he is selling the business right now but will refer you to the new owner.

[LKH]

There are some great glues available.  Loctite makes some of the very best.  

With good glue and some clamps I think you could fix it.  You also can use about 10 feet of 1/4" bunji cord.  Wrap it as tight as possible as you go.  It may not seem like much, but the combined wraps, along with a clamp, should get it closed.

[Plumber]

you would be suprised as to what you could fix.with glues these days.

[tradbower]

Dont know how bad it cracked but this is what I did when this bow went up in smoke while drawing . No sense in getting hurt.
 

[JamesV]

A little more information and some pics would help. I would not draw the bow but you can string it up and see if the crack opens or closes. I had one that the crack opened when strung so I filled it with locktite super glue and unstrung it, after a few days I restrung the bow and the crack was gone. Refinished the bow and it is still shooting. Hope this helps

James

[Jim Jackson]

I know a bowyer who took a recurve that suffered a limb delamination and cut out the riser block.  He reshaped the riser block into a smaller longbow riser and put it in his longbow form with new limbs.  It took a bow with sentimental value and recycled it into something new.

If that isn't a possibility, the riser could perhaps yield knife scales.  Many of the knifemakers on the knife forum could help with a project that would allow you to keep a bit of your bow alive as a knife instead.

Andrew

[The Vanilla Gorilla]

Burn it and inhale the smoke.

[Overspined]

Make it into a walking stick. Just cut it off above the grip

[Plaigh]

First you cry then have a funeral service with a luncheon after. But on a lighter note, I thought there were some photos around here of some SUPER cool creative things to do with limbs & broken bows. I just don't know where to start looking for them.

Sorry about your loss.