Grown limb splice

[sleek]

Say you spot an osage tree with two nice billet limbs. Could a person cut one limb, cut a fish tail splice, and graft it to the other billet limb you did not cut, and wait a couple month for them to grow together before cutting and making a bow? If that works, you could grow spliced on siyahs, and for that mater, organically grow any bow you wish, including some neat mix match frankin bows.

[Hamish]

Sleek...are you smokin' crack again?

[jaxenro]

I think it would be more than a couple of months but they do grafting like this with different types of Walnut to make gunstocks with, grafting on Claro Walnut to other types to help it grow. So I think it is theoretically possible but it might be a couple of years not months

[PatM]

Grafts don't grow  together across the whole splice.

[Pat B]

Only the cambium, the living portion of the tree(limb) grows together in a graft so when you remove the bark and cambium you'll still have to glue the splice together.