Less than an hour shaping with a plane and a knife used as a scraper I had a pretty good longbow.

Seemed that laminated bamboo is fairly forgiving, and capable of some serious deflection making a powerful bow.

Next, a crossbow, though I am wary of that much stored energy with a trivial trigger.

Although I've only shot the bow a handful of times, it's always been a really fulfilling experience.

The full title is, "The Archer's Craft; a Sheaf of Notes on Certain Matters Concerning Archers and Archery, the making of archers' Tackle and the Art of Hunting with the Bow" and the author is Adrian Eliot Hodgkin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPKts3cHvv8