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Title: Would you shoot this riser?
Post by: pigops on May 24, 2019, 06:36:17 PM

Hindsight being 20/20 and all I wish I had scraped this when I had my first hiccup. (Lost too much actionwood trying to get a gluable edge.) Instead I decided to laminate walnut into the riser. Anyway, it is what it is and I have quite a few hours into it at this point. After taking 50 shots or so I noticed I could feel a small lip between the walnut and the actionwood above the deepest part of the grip’s throat but only on the right half of the riser. Come to find out there was a very small crack running laterally (up and down) through the very small piece of actionwood above where the web of my hand goes. It looks to me like maybe the glue joint was weak between the lams on the right side of the belly but not the left. You can see what I’m talking about in the photo where my thumb is pointing to where it seems to stop.
(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190524/05b1e6716be04e2fd26429323e5d168f.jpg)

I can’t get a crack to open up enough to put epoxy in. I’ve tried CA glue but there still seems to be some shifting between when the bow is strung or not strung.

(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190524/d0d8cf51cbacad07e636a09098bb2b91.jpg)

What would you do? Shoot it and see if it ever gets worse or breaks? Put it on the shelf as another learned experience? Fix it in some way that I’m not thinking of? Help a brother out.

Thanks!


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Title: Re: Would you shoot this riser?
Post by: pigops on May 24, 2019, 06:56:41 PM

BTW I do have glass on the back of the riser in the handle section.


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Title: Re: Would you shoot this riser?
Post by: Bvas on May 24, 2019, 10:38:34 PM

I’m struggling to see what you’ve got goin on here. Is this a one piece? Or a riser for a takedown?

Title: Re: Would you shoot this riser?
Post by: pigops on May 24, 2019, 11:49:29 PM

Sorry. It’s the riser of a takedown rdlb

Title: Re: Would you shoot this riser?
Post by: JWheel on May 25, 2019, 12:47:09 AM

I'd try sanding it down a little more and see if the crack is more superficial and may go away.

Title: Re: Would you shoot this riser?
Post by: Crooked Stic on May 25, 2019, 07:03:55 AM

Blow it out with air pressure and see if it will take some thin super glue. Let the glue cure without accelerator.

Title: Re: Would you shoot this riser?
Post by: jess stuart on May 25, 2019, 09:33:44 AM

I have had actionwood split along a glue line a couple of times.  If you have some extra wood you could cut a crescent out and fit in a new piece.  The shelf and sight window junction is a very highly stressed area.