I DON`T need a help for tillering holm.... anymore
Here it is a broken Holmie.How happened :It was carefully broken to 40 lbs. at 20. (Never drawn more than 40 lbs.)It was on tillering tree and I decided to pull it to 25 (tiller was looking good).It...
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Drat!!! Tat's too bad. I know the feeling, well.
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I don't know for sure but it doesn't look like a break caused by wood too dry. Looks like the back failed to me. Did you remove all nicks and tool marks? Was the back glassy smooth?...
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Teo things, the wood was probably very dry, but also If I remember correctly there were a lot of bend close to the handle. It should be more even. Also going from 20 to 25 is WAY to fast, you go from...
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Bad wood. With such a fatal failure, doesnt matter much what you did, this shouldnt happen.I have very light "gingerbread quality" ash, which tends to do the same thing...Smells like gasoline too...If...
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George. There were no tool marks on the back - it was just untouched outer ring. Do you think I spoiled burnishing it heavlily and repeately ?Fundin. I agree completely with you - that was my...
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Kosio, don't tell em you took a sick-day off of work. Iliana bring him a bottle of redwine and some lighter-fluid.Kosio, wrap the bow in a burial shroud. I use half a roll of toilett tissue. Poke one...
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Sorry about your bow, Kosio!Maybe too dry, and also could have rotted some before it had ever dried (I have been told whitewoods should be processed immediately. I had that happen to some ash. It was...
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I wasn't jokeing. I'll be well armed in the happy hunting grounds. That is unless broken bows are not remade by the hands of God.
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I had Rowan flightbow, which eventually broke during distance attempt. I made fire and cooked cofee over it. DDJaro
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I once made a cane arrow with a bone point, to be cremated with a guy (can't cremate metal ) So he got to the happy hunting grounds with his bow and 1 arrow. I was very proud, and honored to do it.And...
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Kosio, no, I don't think the burnishing did it. You should see the tomato stakes in my garden though. Lots of tomato stakes that look suspiciously like bows. I've even got a spliced tomato stake where...
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Hehe in the archery range in san diego theres a target that me and a friend always lost lost arrows on.we made a monument to the arrows by putting a palm frond in a rotted out stump.-SamsquatchIf its...
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Thimo - LOL !!!I`m going to die of laugh ! Hey, I`m gonna break another one... stay, don`t go away...where is everybody ?Kosio
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Sory to see that... on the other hand, if you (or rather If it) didn't breake the, you wouldn't see timo relaxing by burning bow.... Which, at least in my case, would be a terrible loss........(And of...
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O.K., Rob - I`ll confess all the truth to you - the real reason behind breaking this bow (and others) is to see Thimo relaxing. That`t it ! I`m revealed !LOL, friends ! ( I just would like to know...
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I'm happy to have made you laugh Kosio.
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Kosio, sorry for your loss, i understand i am an expert at broken bows , Thimo's funeral is a great idea mostly the booze part. A great way for your bow spirits to live on is to use parts of the...
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If it is bad wood, is it lots of earlywood in it? I have ash with paperlike quality and 50% earlywood, that might be a reason.
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