Beautiful looking bow. I've always been happy with Hickory, but you have to keep it really dry. We ruined a couple bows last spring by storing in the garage over the winter and just stringing them up and shooting in the spring. Should have taken them inside to dry out and for a week or so and oiled em up good before shooting them. Both were several years old and had been fine up to that point, but fretted on the lower limbs that day. We live in upstate NY, by the way, humidity central.