I've build selfbows, board bows, bamboo-backed osage bows and glass laminated bows. Go for the glass one...it's much easier.
I don't know if I'd say 'easier', but definitely different. IMO, glass bows are more of a mechanical process while all wood and wood lam bows are more of an artistic process. That's just the feeling I get when working up different bows. I'm in machinist mode with glass lams and in whittler mode when I'm working all wood.
You're more certain of what you'll wind up with with glass lam bows. You know if you use this thickness for your core lams and that thickness of glass, you'll wind up with a bow that draws close to however-many pounds.
An all wood bow pretty much tells you what it wants to be. If you want a narrow 60 pound bow with a deep stack belly and the wood wants to be a wide 45 pound flatbow, then you make a wide 45 pound flatbow. Period. Then you go looking for another stave that might want to be 60 pounds.
Anyway, congrats on your first bow, BH46!
