I knew sooner or later it was bound to happen. I have been asked this question a lot, " Why not send me my bow when it's finished, why shoot it a couple of hundred times?????????" There is a very good reason why I will not ship out a bow that I have not shot atleast 200 times. Well here is the reason. I was shooting Dave's bow for the first time, just got back actually. Anyway on the 5th shot BOOOOOOOOOOM. Apart from a cut on my left hand, a lump on my forehead and a headache no major damge was done to me. I have no idea on why it let go where it did I will study the pieces carefully tomorrow. Unfortunately Dave I wont be sending your bow out this week I will use the surprise bow riser for your bow so there ya go getting another free upgrade:D
Dang Russ, that is terrible man. glad you did not get hurt. Just goes to show, you never know. Good thing it did not happen to Banjo Dave. Oh, I forgot he don't have any front teeth anyway. (Just kiddin Dave. I know this makes you and Russ both sick)
Bobby Don't make me sick, just gave me a thumper of a headache I tell ya mate it was violent. No creaking or cracking noises on the previous shots, just boom at full draw.
You just need to get an ice pack and get on your drip for a while Russ.:D I can only imagine "how violent". Man what a suprise.
Holy crap Russ , glad to hear you're ok mate . Man that must have gone with a boom , whatever and whenever for the bow mate it takes as long as it takes . That looks like a clean snap and you took the brunt of the blow , hope you're ok Russ . . . . Damn look at the grain on her too
Glad all is well, or at least not any worse. I'm concluding from your experiment that the shear strength of pecan is somewhat less than tigerwood. At least you can console yourself in that you've increased the scientific pool of knowledge in this respect. Kudos. Seriously though, that sucks. Sorry to hear it guys.
L2D. Pecan is an excellent bow wood tight, dense grain. Rob. Don't know mate according to the charts Pecan is sposed to be stronger than Tigerwood. My only conclusion is the blank was still been a bit green, I did not mave a moisture meter when I made the riser but I do now I went and brought one this morning. I just tested the broken riser and the moisture content is 18% So I just finished cutting up the rest of the board and put it in the heat box I will leave it in there for a week checking the moisture content on a daily basis. Steve. Mate you probably know exactly what words I said at the time and SOB was none of them:D
Yeah i supposed that would do it!! Moisture meter is a good investment then lol I am sure it will be more beautiful then ever round 2 :D
Banjo boys bow bites back , you can be sure whatever comes up next though will be sweet sweet sweeeeet . Let the build-a-long commence . Steve , i'm thinkin Russ may have come up with a few colourful words at the moment my bow gave up and SOB will definately be in their .
Ya know I never put much though in how different woods are denser than others making them better for risers or limbs.
It's not just a matter of density Joe. There's grain structure and shear strength to be considered as well. I hated working stocks of highly figured wood because the grain seldom ran true through the wrist area as it should. I wonder what a balsa riser would be like...?
Yeah Rob, I never thought about that either! Kinda like building a POC arrow gotta get the grain going in the right direction for the strength!
Joe. I had the grain going the lenght of the riser for strength as you can see it let go across the grain. I still think that it was the moisture content of the wood that was the main factor in it letting go. I have the rest of the board in the heat box drying out so far it has been in there for 3 days and the moisture content is still 18% in the center of the blocks, the outside of the blocks are 10%
