Ideas for this stave?

[Burnsie]

I have chased a ring on this stave - it has a knot hole that might be something interesting to work into the bow, but it's out close to the one end. Any ideas if the knot can be worked around? If I cut the stave off right at the bottom of the knot I still have 65.5" of nice straight stave, so not all is lost if it doesn't work out.
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[Pat B]

That's a cool knot. Too bad it is so close to the end. Where it is will make it difficult to get both limbs balanced while tillering. Osage Outlaw(Clint) gave me a similar stave. I ended up cutting the knot off and built a static recurve with the stave and gave the cutoff to Clint and he made a cool ax handle with it.

[KenH]

I agree with Pat.  Cut the knot off and make something special from it!

[Burnsie]

Yep, I think the knot is going to have to go.
I'll do some thinking on something cool I might be able to do with the knot?
Thanks guys

[Skeeterlegs]

How about this?

[Kirkll]

I tried that one time on a glass backed bow and drilled several holes in the limb just for fun both top and bottom.  I called it "the whistler" ....It made some pretty strange noise before the fiberglass finally split... one of those " I wonder what will happen" experiments...    I don't think I'd recommend it... kirk