My first and only bow was a Bear laminate recurve, I guess circa '67. Was pretty much on own trying to make my own lemonwood stave long bow, and in pre-internet days, and lack of communication with like minded folk, including about zero press where even knives were only sidelines in other magazines and books, ended up dropping out of such and concentrated time and energy in shotokan.
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Cadent a latere tuo mille, et decem millia a dextris tuis;
ad te autem non appropinquabit.