My project. A 60" Yew bendy. I've never done a bendy handle that I remember so should be interesting. The stave is one of those long tapered splits that you get when things don't go quite right. It's 3" wide at one end and 3/4" wide at the other and the thin end was split in three spots. By the time I cut the splits off it was 60.5" long so I decided on a bendy. It's got a couple of wiggles but no knots. It must be about 80-90 RPI because I had to use a 10x lens to see them. It was cut in 2014 so it should be dry.