snake bit by the rat on my bow, and it needs help - badly.

[gwhunter]

Ok, so I have already posted it a couple of times, but I just finished a hickory back osage bow. 60#@26"  The bow is 64" tip to tip and it has successfully shot a couple of hundred arrows, even provding me with a robin hood.  I mean I am point and click to 25 yards.  So I decided to give it a little character and add teak overlays to the bow and then back it with an eastern rat snake.  

Well it is my first time to do this.....No big deal right, since it was also my first time to work z-spliced, perry-reflexed osage billits.  So I get the snake glued on, descaled, and trimmed down.  I then finish the bow with many coats of my favorite, true-oil.  I mean many of you could do this work with your eyes closed, but this bow is a gem to me.  And it is done, with pictures here to prove it.

Enter the seemingly unfixable problem.  The urac that I glued the hickory to the osage with appears to be cracking and falling out.  Well maybe not cracking, but pitting. They are small, the size of a ball-point pen head, but will they grow?  Can I fix them/how?  Has this bow already been retired and I just don't know it yet?

HELP!
Bow Pics:
  http://s108.photobucket.com/albums/n24/gw_hunter/rat_snake/  

Problem Area(in the brown glue joint):
  http://s108.photobucket.com/albums/n24/gw_hunter/rat_snake/?action=view¤t=IMG_1025.jpg  
  http://s108.photobucket.com/albums/n24/gw_hunter/rat_snake/?action=view¤t=IMG_1024.jpg

[the Ferret]

Mix up some 2 part epoxy and force it down into the spots with a popsicle stick. I thnk that's the best you can do  and then shoot it until another problem arises (if one does). Sometime keeping these things going is overcoming problems that arise.

BTW that is one reason many of us prefer selfbows or bows made from 1 piece of wood. 2 less places for failure (backing and glue line)

One of the 5 bows that have broken on me out of over 100 was a hickory backed osage that the hickory let go on taking the osage belly with it   :mad:

[gwhunter]

Thanks Ferret.  I believe that I got my glue to thick(not even enough of a mixture) and my pressure not even enough.  But I would like to salvage this bow.  I definitely appreciate all your help.

[Eric Krewson]

I have glued up dozens of bows with urac. What you are seeing is common and not a problem although I do fill the voids with more urac or superglue, superglue is the easiest. What happened is you either didn't have your mating surfaces perfectly flat or your clamp pressure was uneven from side to side. The little voids won't cause a bow failure from my experience.

[gwhunter]

Ya'll have definitely made me much happer.  I will try one of the above and let you know how it goes.  
Thanks a million.
Ben