R/D splice options??

[k-hat]

Wanted to get some thoughts from y'all on a R/D Hick-backed-osage I want to do.  i've got some 3/4" thick osage slats and a handle section (also of 3/4" osage) already steam bent into deflex from a mishap stave.  I hate that pretty curve to go to waste! 

So which would you do?

1.  glue on a riser section to the ends of two slats so they are 1.5" thick, cut splice and glue together into deflex

or

2.  splice the slats into the deflexed handle section i already have (i have 10+" of handle), with the splice going right up to where the curve starts on either side.  The hick backing will go smooth over this and i can add meat to the handle section for  grip.

[JeremiahVires]

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[k-hat]

Thanks JV.  That's what i was hoping for, and that's what i'm gonna do unless somebody says it aint gonna work   Hadn't seen it done so i figured i'd get some input from the more experienced folk.

[JeremiahVires]

I'd like to ask, why the deflex?  Why not reflex the handle? 
I'd reflex the handle and splice it.  Then just do what you'd do for #2.

[k-hat]

Going for a Deflex-Reflex design.  It's one of a few I haven't yet tried