I went ahead and glued it up to an unknown tropical wood with the lemonwood back. The tropical wood didn't have any tendency to chrysal like so many do and was relatively light at about 70 sg. I got it out to about 24" draw and my splice let go, This was the first time I tried a working handle using tightbond, the splice looked good so I am assuming the tightbond is not good for a flexable joint. My lemonwood was a lot straighter than I first thought it was once I cleaned it up, nice straight edge grain. Going to try again with cherry, no splice this time.