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Dale:
Thanks for the clarification everyone.  I'm just getting back into all-wood bows and have seen alot of bows, both backed and unbacked, referred to as self bows.  I always thought that a self bow was a bow made of a single piece of wood with no backing.  I guess that is still true.

Badger:
A self bow can be made from billets are a single stav, a self bow cannot be backed, a self bow can have a handle section added and nock overlays and still be a self bow. The little confusion comes in when backings are really finishes. Most consider snakeskin a finish and not a true backing. Silk is considered a backing but often only for a little insurance. Steve

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