Well I thought about that but my order got messed up from the start. It was supposed to be a pair. Only one billet came. I called and they told me they didn't know what happened since they were taped together in pairs. He said they would get it shipped to me asap. I figured the sister billet was setting there like he said untaped and someone new had made a mistake pulling the order. Well there is know way these are sister billets since there cut from different parts of a tree with different size rings but I thought if they would work with the backing I would go ahead and use em since it's my first boo backed bow anyway. I would at least like a shooter and I hate just to waste the boo and glue and2 good billets. The other real problem I see here besides mine is now there is another non pair of billets setting on the shelf, and someone else will end up skunked. I would have sent the first one back no problem if they had asked me to, so they could send me a pair and they could have made handle blanks out of the other one. Anyway thats my story! If ya don't think it will work I'll send em back.