This one was an ash stave made of a cut billet.
Destined to fail. Why you ask? Because it was glued.
Huh you say.
My theory, that the wood was confused. It was a nice looking stave at 66" long. It was given to me to work as I see fit.
I roughed out the bow, worked down the handle and noticed that the bow was fighting me. Tillered it down to a nice half moon bend. It was a pretty bow with the twisted limbs. The top limb twisted one way, the bottow the other way. If you turned the bow upside down, it had the same twists.
The billet was cut down the middle and a Z splice cut and glued.
It broke on the bottom or maybe it was the top limb. Who really knows.
The stave was confused, it had two top limbs or two bottom limbs. They were fighting, no flow.
So that is why the stave broke. That is my story and I'm sticking to it.
Now on to the rawhide backed hickory. Maybe oneday I will get to the lams and make a bow.
