favorite wood color combos for handle and limbs

[HMlongbow]

What are you favorite wood combos in either handle or limbs?
I know I'm particular to the para rosa limbs w/ para rosa and black colored wood combos in the handle.  I also like the natural woods colors as well.

[ron w]

My favorites....cocobolo with osage, but there are others that look well also! Limbs...I like waterfall or tamo ash! Good grainy elm is nice also!

[Bladepeek]

and I'm partial to the walnut/maple on my new Lost Creek I just posted.

[Sixby]

Koa and Maccassar or wenge.Koa lights up like a Christmas tree. It has a depth like no other wood I have seen.
Ebony and Cocabola is pretty neat too as is Claro Walnut and ebony.
I have built a couple of bows of super fancy maple and purpleheart that are simply stunning.
Then there is Myrtle and Koa

Hey, I guess I just like wood.

God bless you all, steve

[Shedrock]

I really like the looks of walnut/osage. I have a stunning 56" Pronghorn one piece with a walnut riser and osage limbs. Looks great when the osage was "new", now after it has aged a fews years, looks even better.

[cbCrow]

Osage limbs and Bacota riser really floats my boat. Really like how they look when they have aged together for a few years.

[AdAstraAiroh]

The black natural figuring and grain of Kingwood or Cocobolo in contrast to its red/orange base wood color really looks great to me.  If these woods are highlighted with osage or black ebony, then all the better.

Mark

[Night Wing]

Cocobolo and white myrtle looks great.

[Jerry Jeffer]

My favorite just became yew limbs and purple heart riser on my new longbow.

[Eric Sprick]

Here some combos I like on my Mohawks

Bubinga with Cocobolo

 

Osage with Cocobolo

 

Another Osage and Cocobolo reversed

 

Eric

[Eric Sprick]

Forgot to add that the Osage in the middle pic is really mellowing and turning that nice honey color.  Looks even better with the Cocobolo as it ages.

[Sixby]

Yew and purpleheart, Fantastic combination. great choice you made on that. Do you have a picture.

God bless you, steve

[Javi]

My favorite riser wood is Texas Ebony… I’m torn on the limb veneers between Mesquite and Osage… probably leaning toward the Osage after it ages..

[Sirius Black]

I second Sixby on that Koa. Grows in Hawaii. I just sent off an email question to my bowyer on making a bow for me in Koa. I think he has used it in the past.  

[COLongbow]

How about these combos?

Cocobolo riser and Tulipwood limbs

Zircote riser and Tiger Myrtle limbs

[pauljr]

Cocobolo riser yew limbs or solid curly maple stained dark like Bob Thompson used to do.

[Canadabowyer]

Shedua and bubinga riser with red elm limbs.Natural camo!! Bob

[meathead]

I have a shedua and zebrawood that I like alot.

[d from phx]

I like Zebrawood with Cocabola.That isd on my V-Bow

[coaster500]

I like Myrtle and Walnut but when in doubt mix them up      

   
   

soooooooooo many choices and soooooooooo little time...

   

Left to right Myrtle, Snake, Walnut, Striped Ebony and Redwood Burl....