Here's one I just put the finishing touches on today for the Bow Swap on Trad Gang.
This would fall into the backed category. It's a Bamboo Backed Osage with a black snake skin through the handle and about half way out to the tips.
Old style tips (no overlays) 60" NTN, 50# @ 28" and 1" of retained reflex after tillering from the 3" that I glued into the straight profile.
Finish on the tips is Fiebings medium brown leather dye, then the finish is Poly semi gloss.
I think it's the fastest bow I've built to date and it really hammers my 450gr. CX Predators home with authority. It's kinda tough to turn this one loose, but the object of the bow swap was to do the best you can do for someone else. I think I put as much into this bow if not more than one I would make for myself. I hope my recipient enjoys it and maybe even draws blood with it.
BTW- That T-shirt I'm wearing is the Camp Cuervo Archery Club Iraq which is an archery program sponsored by the Michigan Bow hunters Association. They donate archery equipment to the soldiers in Iraq in the form of bows, arrows, targets, arm guards, finger tabs, ect. so the soldiers who like to shoot traditional will have a little piece of home when they are so far away. Maybe it helps take their mind off of the war for just a little bit.
Buying the T-shirt helps raise money for shipping of donated equipment.
I believe that the Camp Cuervo in Iraq has since moved to another location? Not sure on that, but there is also one in Afghanistan as well.
Now here's the pics. Now the money shot