I don't trust worm holes in anything,knot hole are fine cause the grain kind of grows down into them but worm holes are like you drilled a hole and can pull up a splinter at the hole.We had planed
on drilling these out and put a plug in them with some good glue but managed to work around them.I have rapped them before with sinew but since we were going to raffle this one off we didn't want it rapped, al tho I have done that several time with good success.I would recommend doing something to a worm hole before you bend it much,either plug it or get it close to floor tiller and rap with sinew or back it with something,it just ant worth the chance.I have heard some say it will be OK but for me it ant worth it to even try.
Pappy