Primitive Archer

I think, you should use the bark turned to 90 degrees, if you want to back the bow.
If you want to wrap the bow, you have the right direction.

I'm close to backing a sinew backed Yew bow with birch bark.  Should I use hide glue or some other adhesive?  I'm also curious what side of the bark looks better.  I'm leaning towards the lighter color.  Any suggestions?

A few years ago I made my brother a wingbone call from a turkey he got.  He's a big turkey hunter and has every call you can think of, but never really thought the wingbone call "sounded right".  Well...  fast forward to this past spring and a particularly difficult bird he and his friend were trying to call in.  They tried everything they had and that old bird wanted nothing of it, that was until that old wing bone call I made came out.  He told me he figured why not give it a try (I was surprised he had actually took it with him, lol).  But low and behold, he managed to call that old Tom in with that call and his buddy got a nice trophy bird.

So his buddy then had to have one of those magic calls so I told him to give me the wings and I'd make him a couple.  I just got around to it this past week.  The bird had one wing that had been broken and healed so it made a cool looking call.  Was a little challenging to clean the bone out but I managed to get it.  Anyway, here's the two calls I made from those wings.  Hopefully he can get another bird using one.  These are fun to make and pretty easy.  Cool that you can use a harvest to get your next.

I have the black locust bow that’s just about done. So y’all line up some competition.🤠🤠🤠

That's really cool, hopefully it holds up alright! Looking forward to seeing how it pans out.