A selfbow is a bow made from a single piece of wood.They can be backed with other materials such as rawhide,sinew,another wood(these are composite selfbows).A takedown recurve is a recurve that can be taken apart.I have 3 t/d's and they're all 3 pc.Some are 2pc t/d's.There's also t/d longbows-both 2 and 3 pc.A lamiinated bow is made with several alyers of wood glued together and finished with glass.The bows you see in the stores are laminated bows