>>46280Now if you want to get fancy about it, there's a lot you can do. Laminations are a good start, and that's where I went next. This is the bow I made for the 2012 bow swap. Look how much I improved over one year of this; the previous year was a board bow, and this year is a glass recurve (a note on the swap: nobody cares if it's only a board bow. Everyone participating knows that everyone else is going to do the very best they can do to make their recipient pleased. Not a single person that received their bow was upset with what they got). The thing to take out of this is that you improve with each and every bow you make, and in very large and visible ways.
Anyway, something as simple as laminations can bring life to a bow's aesthetics. I also opted for clear glass, and I will never go back after seeing how pretty it can get with the wood underneath it.
There's something to be said here about strings. You need them. You can make them. Your first one will suck. You will make more. They will not suck. They will work, and that should suffice.
Or you can buy them. They will work. They will cost more.
The same can be said for arrows, too, and I could tell you how to make them, but that's for another day.
