i just got back into bowyering after a 5 month recess (school first... regrettably) and i started a beech flat bow blank. as i was chopping it to size i noticed that there are termite tracks under both ends of the board underneath the bark. i planned on using the bark as backing, which worked well for the last beech bow i made. what should i do with this? i put a few hours into sizing it up so i"d like to try and salvage it. i sprayed brakeleen into the tracks but i don't know how far into the wood they are or if they"re even still there. should i remove the bark and back it with something else?
