I am building a series of billet bows from Scotch Broom, just to see what it can do - its a staggeringly good bow wood - anyway, couple of questions, first one: if the crown of one billet does not match the crown of the other billet, how do you hide the messy join where the curves of the crowns don't marry up nicely? Second - the disadvantage of Scotch Broom is it's a small diameter timber and often only comes in short lengths so is there any way of estimating the likely draw weight of a billet before you splice a pair together. There are very dew examples out there to get suggestions on limb width/thickness/taper.
