I've finished the replacement bow, and after checking with the customer it's at a whisker under 90# @ 31".
What was ostensibly a very clean stave revealed a multitude of knots and features , mostly fairly easy to deal with. What can happen is that a small twig or branck gets snapped off and grow over leaving clean looking sapwood but with the dead knot lurking underneath. Often the telltale sign is a bulge in the sapwood or a patch of discolouration in the wood as you work it down.
Enough chat...pictures!
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