Handles, plain or wrapped?

[Klandaght]

I have used Rattan wrap, leather laced, leather wrap, cordage winds, an left it bare.  The wrap is like a pictue frame. It only enhances the work of art.  And matching the frame to the painting is the way I decide.  You wouldn't frame a victorian scene painting with a rustic rough hewn frame and you wouldn't frame a rustic outddor scene with a gold gilded fancy frame.  Match the hatch is sound way to decide.  After all, our bow creations are a work of art.  About bare handles, sometimes a work of art can stand alone.

In other words, bare or covered, it is the artistic expression of the bowyer.

[Grunt]

I like a glued glove leather arrowplate and sewn glove leather handle coated lightly with paste wax.  I am going to try just a arrowplate alone though.

[NTD]

Frank,

Is the alternating black a brown a dye job?

[medicinewheel]

Nate,
it's a lighter and a darker striüe layed next to each other.