In 2014 I built my first successful HBO. I shot somewhere around 300 - 400 arrows through it before I heard a creaking in the lower limb. There was a knot on the belly side lower limb just outside the fades a bit. I let down from the draw and figured it was toast. After some research I attempted the Dean Torges patch but that failed. Possibly due to the small u shape fix that I had attempted. So the bow sat in the corner for a couple years and I figured it would be a wall decoration or that I would get tired of looking at a failure and cut it up.
I pulled it down last week and figured I would give a new thought a try before cutting it up for fire wood.
I opened up the u shape from an inch and a half to about 4 inches long. Then proceeded to take .030 lams of Osage and using smooth on epoxy I glued a couple pieces down at a time let it dry sanded and added more lams until I had leveled up the hollow.
And to my surprise it held together! The tiller was off a bit but some scraping brought things back in line and I have put about 500 arrows through it with no issues. I decided to give it a paint job and use some b50 string I had laying around to cover up the layering of lams on the belly side.
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Nice save on a good looking bow. I've rasped down the bellies on a couple of whitewood bows, glued on osage lams and retillered them. I probably could have made a new bow in the time that I spent on it, but there is just so much satisfaction in saving one.
Very nice.
Sweet next time take some pics to show us how you did it.
Looks good though.
Well done, congrats on a fine looking bow.