Dean is a great guy (and smart) and makes some real nice self-bows. If anyone gets the chance to meet with Gary Davis, I'd also suggest doing it. He travels a lot to most of the bigger shoots and sets up his shops for making your own self-bow. My son and I made one with Gary in 2006 at the club I belong to (for my son), I wanted to make one for myself this year, but I got kitchen duty . He is an incredible shot with his self bows as can be seen in masters of the barebow volume 2. Dean is on volume 1. They both share a lot of their insights to self-bowsin the series.