"promised myself I won't start another bow until all the ones I have are either finished, cut up or gotten rid of."
For me, I got bows that I have resolved myself to add a leather limb cover or snake skin or rawhide eventually that I just don't ever finish. I think after the initial bow is functionally completed, and it's been shot 1000 times, it just loses the excitement it had when you were making it. And then ill get enthralled with another beautiful stave I have been glancing at for a year or so. So, for me, sometimes I just lose motivation to finish the thing. The ones I do finish with the bowyers mark/leather cross stitched handle and all that jazz just get set up on the wall like some piece of art, I'm too scared to shoot the thing half the time because I'm too scared Ill dink the finish. However, the ones that do get all the love are usually some dirt stained sinew backed caveman lookin bow thats been dropped and bumped and thrown around in the woods so much it could make a bowyer cry.
