Ok, I was thinking, these boards you get, had grain all over the place. And you didn't care because you only want it for compression only. I know for Osage, it would break if you tried to floor tiller or bend without following the grain perfectly or without backing.

If you were to make a BBO, would you also try to floor tiller the core osage? Also, with IPE, is the tiller pretty close if you get the core the same dimensions. In other words, I have seen Osage from limbs that the same dimensions sure won't make the same strength limbs.