Whoops. I think my post may have come out pithier than I meant it to. I too enjoy looking at bow porn. I was looking at Robertson, Navajo and Shrew earlier today and dreaming of the Permanent Fund Dividend.
Thanks for the welcome. I've looked at the site off and on but never bothered to register. Don't know why. Laziness probably. I'm new to Alaska. Trying to sort through the hunting regs, draws, permits, licenses, guide requirements, blood and stool samples and the like. Ick.
Another trad guy up here in Delta Junction told me I should join up. So 'Voila'.
I made a yew longbow with Jay St. Charles back in 2001, while it doesn't shoot as sweetly as my Caddo, I think I'll be more proud seeing it handed down to the generations since it has my name on it and I made it, with a lot of help from Jay of course. I still have the memories of the drawknife working its magic from billet to bow. We even went out looking at Yew trees in the National Forest.
Fiberglass shoots so sweet and will last forever, so we hope, but a wood self bow just smacks of the natural order of things.
Crap, I'm a hypocritical wooden bow snob and just realized it. Off to look at more knife and bow pics.