Really cool looking bow! The handle is very sweet. The finishing work, as well as the nice transition of the ipé into the handle, is clearly done with great care.
I've got a few remarks/questions, though. I don't think you needed to pre-bend that ipé on the belly with steam. Since you're doing a trilam, the glue lines will easily hold most of the shape you force into it while the glue is still wet. As long as your laminations are thin enough, and slightly tapered in width towards the tips, it will hold without pre-bending. Apply glue to the lams, put them together, and force them into the desired shape with a few clamps. Since the lams are thin, they will have little spring back, maybe 20% or so.
I don't really like that bend in the lower fade, actually. It may looks worse in the picture than it actually is, but that fade (maybe eight inches out from the leather handle) appears to be a little hingey. Or is it just me...?
Good job on that thin ipé belly. A thick maple core helps to keep the mass low, as badger points out. However, make sure the ipé does not get too thin in certain areas. I've seen an ipé belly lam get crushed under the back and core, when the ipé got thinner than about 1/16". If the core is not tapered towards the tips, this is most likely to happen just past midlimb, where the limbs get thinnest. You obviously did good, since you don't have chrysals, but this is just a heads up for other people that want to produce a similar trilam with ipé on the belly.
