Found a piece of the hickory I trimmed from making a gunstock and ran off a couple 1/4" strips then ran through planer to 1/8".
Having never done this I scratched the contact surfaces up some with a sawzall blade, wiped down with denatured alcohol, dried , wet both surfaces good with TBIII and clamped up with a stiff backer above backing strip to flatten it out good. 12 C-clamps holding it all together. Ill leave it until morning and see how it looks .
I think Ill add a 1/4" Walnut overlay on the lap joint. I read that here someplace .
Thanks for the input on this thread and my other one concerning backing strips

Perhaps I can save this puppy yet !