I brought the stave back from California, given me by a friend who cut it from the mountains in Utah. From the beginning I wanted to do something along the lines of Ishi's style of bow. The sinew came from local deer legs and some from Michigan deer, one a very large buck that made my local doe legs look like coyote's. So I shredded the local stuff 1st and did 2 courses of sinew followed by the long 12-14" Michigan buck sinew. Let it cure for about 3 months, then covered in deer raw hide. Then put it away for nearly a year.
The result is 53" n-to-n and 45# at 28".
