Heres a few pics of the one I think I'll settle on sending to my guy. This is plan D, the results of plans A-C have been a little bit frustrating.
Issues ranged from underweight, to frets, to hand shock on the first three attempts. Still have some tiller tweaks to address on this one but heading over to the shop in a few minutes to hopefully work those out and then start putting a finish back on. Thought I was done but decided a bit more belly scrapping was in order. It will be a simple and primitive looking bow, the kind I am drawn to the more I keep making them.