Following the 2013 US Nationals, I decided one of my first tasks is to repair the bow limbs that damaged with my final shot (set #28). I really liked how smoothly this set drew back and crisp it felt on the shot. They were not of much use in the condition that they were in so I figured I had nothing to lose.
I started by carefully measuring the dimensions of the good limb, noting the thickness, width, and side profile at one inch intervals. I also measured the thickness of the back and belly glass lamination. I fed these dimensions into my "Supertiller" bow modelling program to create a virtual version of the bow. The damage to the limb was too severe to simply glue back together. If the bow was to shoot again, the width profile of the outer limb will need narrowing. I was able to use the virtual bow to develop a new width profile for the bow limbs that would have minimal affect on the tiller or way the limbs bent when drawn back and released. I printed out the pattern and proceeded to reshape both limbs.
I used several thin hickory laminations with a layer of glass mat between each to form the new tip overlays. I added additional overlay laminates to the sides of the limb tips with the hope that this would help counteract the high shear forces when the string slams home.
