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Hickory Backed Massaranduba Build Along and help

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Will Carothers:
i understand what your saying, but i looked at the board and i can cut it to were there are no grain runouts at all, so i think it will work, if i cut it to where it follows the grain

Badger:
  The hickory board you have appears flat sawn, all the V's that are formed by the grain are places it can break. Is the board thick enough to chase a ring on?

Will Carothers:
The board is flat sawn, and i probably could chase a ring, but on both sides of the v's
the grain is very straight, so i was planning on using that as the backing

blackhawk:
But the board was cut on a pretty far off angle from the lateral grain....thats why you see the heartwood at the bottom and not the top. Meaning it wasnt cut up straight along with the way the trunk grew up. Might work ok for lower weight bows,but i would not fully trust it and have faith in it for a heavy bow.

Will Carothers:
All right i see what your saying, what do you think is the heaviest safe bow i could get out of this? im not sure, but i would hope i could get maybe 80# if the bow is longer than i planned, let me know what you think. I got this from the closest lumberyard which was about 3 hours away, and im only fifteen, so the times i can go is pretty limited, so i was hoping this board would work, but oh well, haha

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