accidentally dry fired my Bamboo backed ipe
bow. nock slipped off the string at full draw.
immediately unstrung and inspected.... found
this on the back. is there any way i can save it?
or did i just make wall art?

hit it with thin super glue---
its pretty small--might be ok

might need a shave too!!lol

Super glue it and wrap it with sinew or silk thread and soak the wrapping with super glue. I would continue the wrap out an inch on each side of the end of the crack also.

well im away from home this week and i dont have any sinew with me... so i rubbed some gorilla glue impact tough into it. shot it a couple times and it seems ok.  i think i may leave it at that and just keep an eye on it for now... and if it grows i will sinew it.  any risk of it blowing up without warning or will it grow or lift before that happens?

It could go BOOM at any time.. I would not shoot it till it's wrapped.

thanks roy. gonna put it away for now then. i knew i brought the fedora with me for a reason!

             

AWE MAN..THAT SUCKS!

Sorry Buddy...

I'm amazed really.

That little crack really spells impending doom?

...wait.. looking again..
Is that 2 lengthwise cracks with a horizontal crack and lift between?

..if that is what's going on it does look pretty bad..

yeah zradix thats whats going on. felt sick about it all day yesterday but ive come to grips with it.  ill wrap it and it will be ok i guess.

Sure hope so buddy.

Got to tell ya man..That thread of you building that one is kind of an inspiration to me...really like what you had going on there.

...if it does go south..just gives you reason to build an even better one..

Wonder how much reflex you'd get with sinew?....
That ipe is pretty strong stuff but a sinewed bamboo back sounds pretty powerful as a back..
..might just be spectacular too...

i dont think he means to sinew the entire back- but just to do a nice neat, single layer wrap, much like serving on a string, or how an eye is tied to a fishing rod.
a bit above the visible damage , over the damage and to just below the damage.
if it were me i would look real close,id the damaged area carefully and start the wrap about 1/2" above to about 1/2" below .

oh....I'm just a dummy..lol

Don't feel bad Zradix, ole fujimo's not the brightest bulb on the tree either... JK, Wayne..  

thats just unlucky mate hope you can save this bow as it looked fantastic and like zradix says the build thread was inspiring.

   :D  
 Roy man!!!!
that sure is a nice bow Zradix,
i sure like those ipe bows, nice and light and snappy too!!

thanks guys. even if it does break i learned a heck of alot from this bow. definitely doing another BBI.... with thinner boo and more reflex.... and thicker serving lol!

Eric..

Why did you choose Ipe over Osage?
I'm not knocking your choice AT ALL...

Just curious what tipped the scales toward the Ipe for you.

I'm trying to decide which belly wood to use myself.
Thought about yew, sounds like it would make a great shooter, but also quite sensitive to temps.

All my bows are hunting bows so "sensitive" isn't a quality I'm looking for...lol

I've sorta narrowed it down to Ipe vs Osage myself.

I see that Ipe is harder, stiffer, and heavier than Osage.
Does the ipe belly actually come out lighter because of it's stiffness?


Thanks

John

i know ya asked Eric, but here is my unsolicited opinion... :D  
ipe can be a bit narrower, and "feels slimmer and lighter" never weighed them compared to my osage.
i sure love yew- mainly cos i have lots of it here, and for a backed bow it is great.
i wouldnt say that it is sensitive to temps, but more so to MC. just like all woods have a perfect mc, so does yew- it likes around 12% so ive been taught, osage around 8%, hickory around 6%.
just seal them all well. yew is a little softer, so you cant throw it down the mountain ahead of ya, but it sure is a very pretty wood, with lots of "swirls and islands".- but my other two choices are ipe and osage- they are all on a par!