I gave it another 10 scrapes top and bottom and then bent it again. I think the camera cought me with a look of trepidation as I heard a click in the upper limb.
I gave it a full lookover andcould find no splinters lifting or other problems. There was a windshake that I glued up with some superglue and assumed it was some of the excess glue letting loose. I scraped it all down and gave it 10 or so scrapes on each limb.
It's looking pretty good and I am starting to get excited about this thing living. It's still abit heavy so I scrape it down a little more and start cleaning up the limbs anticipating the finish job I'm going to put on it.
I pulled it back to full draw and disaster struck.
She let go in the spot where the grain ran off really bad in the upper limb part of the handle. I had thought that I left it in the handle enough so that it would not flex but I guess it let go anyways. I've been seriously bummed for 2 days.
Physically, I guess I was lucky it hit me in the ribs and not the head. I don't have a tiller tree set up at the lake so I was pulling it by hand. The bruise is painful but the broken bow of a lifetime is the real pain here.
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