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Title: RING ISSUE! please help!
Post by: Wingless Arrow on September 20, 2011, 05:35:00 PM
so i was cahsin a ring on the back of the limb, and then this happend! i already have half of it down to the ring that was violated. can i just leave it? or do i have to go ahead and take one more ring off?
(http://i833.photobucket.com/albums/zz254/Stuwx/ring.jpg)

 (http://i833.photobucket.com/albums/zz254/Stuwx/rings.jpg)

i put my finger on it to show size. oh, and i traced it with a pencil to show the line better.

Thanks,

JL
Title: Re: RING ISSUE! please help!
Post by: Blkbird on September 20, 2011, 06:33:00 PM
Title: Re: RING ISSUE! please help!
Post by: Pat B on September 20, 2011, 11:07:00 PM
You need to get it down to a clean, unviolated ring! Show a pic of the end grain. Might be a better ring below.
Title: Re: RING ISSUE! please help!
Post by: mwirwicki on September 20, 2011, 11:43:00 PM
Yes, by all means.  Take it down to that ring.
Title: Re: RING ISSUE! please help!
Post by: Osagetree on September 21, 2011, 08:13:00 AM
If that is in the handle (non-working portion of the bow) it would be fine. If it is anywhere between fade and tip it will have to be taken down to the next ring.
Title: Re: RING ISSUE! please help!
Post by: Wingless Arrow on September 21, 2011, 02:18:00 PM
actually, the whole thing is a limb. haha. im experimenting with a 3-piece takedown with self bow limbs. Thanks for all the help!

This is the tip of it.
(http://i833.photobucket.com/albums/zz254/Stuwx/940e32e6.jpg)

This is the other end
(http://i833.photobucket.com/albums/zz254/Stuwx/45faad00.jpg)

ok sorry bout the size! i edited them multiple times but they wont shrink! frustrating...  :banghead:
Title: Re: RING ISSUE! please help!
Post by: Pat B on September 21, 2011, 02:53:00 PM
I'd just use a scraper to chase one of those thin rings. Better chance of not scraping through the ring.
Title: Re: RING ISSUE! please help!
Post by: scrub-buster on September 21, 2011, 08:01:00 PM
When I chase a ring, I like to take it down to the spring growth right above the ring that I want and then use sandpaper to remove the crunchy spring growth.  

I would take it down to this ring.  Its thicker and not to far down.  It looks like it is the same thickness on the other end too.  

 (http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r55/clintanders/45faad00.jpg)