Cracked and bug-Holed board, salvageable?

[AtomicWrangler]

Bengkirai board just arrived all cracked and chewed up by bugs, probably those borer beetles. I mean it was a very cheap piece of board and i'm on a tight budget but i didn't expect the board to be this badly damaged, you get what you pay for i guess . The major crack runs with the grain while the holes run across the grains. Atleast this board doesn't have any knots, that's one of the good thing from this board.





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So what do you guys think? should i try fill the holes and cracks or just use this board for other non-bow related projects? and will this thing blow up on me? hah


BTW the dimension of this plank is 105x7x1.5 cm and I wish to make a Hupa style boardbow like the one shown in TBB 1, it will be backed with sinew once I got some in hand

Thanks in advance

[AtomicWrangler]

heres the pics

[Pat B]

I wouldn't waste my time with it. Too many problems.

[Eric Krewson]

Here is what those type of beetles do under the wood surface, your wood is toast.

[Santanasaur]

If you’re lucky the tunnels will all get removed in the rough out. It’s hard to know how deep they go,  some of them often take a sharp turn and burrow deep in the stave. I guess I’d try it out if it was all I had. I’ve made a few bows with bug tunnels in the limbs but have a hard time trusting them

[gutpile]

Can always use it for handle overlays and such but I wouldn’t build a bow .. that looks bad not just bugs but the cracks too ... gut

[George Tsoukalas]

Not good. Jawge

[Yooper Bowyer]

Is there enough clean wood to get a pair of billets?

[bradsmith2010]

ill almost try anything, but unless you can scrape off the bug tunnels,, I think it might not be a good bow wood

[AtomicWrangler]

thank you guys for the feedback! it's a shame really, i got inspired by a dude that manage to make a mollegabet bow out of bengkirai/balau, that's what i get for buying cheap boards online .

Erik Krewson, Santanasaur and tradcraftsman, the bug holes in the pic doesn't go through the wood so i may be able to just scrape off that side to get a nice clean wood, the other small holes that does go through the wood i'll just have to superglue em and hope for the best.

Thanks

[scp]

The stave is way too short for a Mollegabet bow. You can probably v-splice tips to make it much longer.