Primitive Archer

I was not very lucky with blond Ipe. I had more than one bow chrysaling away. I later discussed the topic with a more experienced bowyer telling me that it varies a lot. Blonde ipe generally is not so great, only the heavier boards maybe still ok. so you can be lucky or not. I would not stress the bow too much maybe. I personally will use my more pale boards for fencing now.   
density in general seems a good criteria for ipe, it goes along with quality (and also with color with the dark type).
I lately laminated a few warbows from different boards of dark ipe and noticed massive differences between the boards. the darker and heavier board produced a lot more drawweight at the same dimensions.

would love to see more photos of this guy, have you shown it before?

I cut lots of staves with burls on them. I'm trimming some burls off the end as I trim staves down. Anyone have an interest in short stave sections with burls, or whole staves with burls? The burls are around 3 to 4 inches wide.  Id imagine bows could be made with the burls on the bow if you are the artsy type and enjoy headaches. Staves are only 1 year old but straight and wide.

Between emotions and thirst, there dropping like flys. The key to me is the warer bottle.

It is a state thing; the feds don't consider a B/P gun a firearm.

My thoughts exactly Hamish, been doing it for 40 years but every now and then I see someone doing something and think,  Man I never thought of that and I am always careful when people want me to help them to add " this is how I do it but it is for sure not the only way to get it done " their are a few rules that really need to be followed but the rest just find what works for you.
 Pappy