I think I"ll eventually make some bows when I retire, just to do it.
I took a Bingham blank many years ago for a high school ag class project, along with making a knife from a blank of steel.. the bow blank was just needing all the wood removed/shaped etc... but I did read up and just didn't have the time to figure out how to laminate and such at that point.
Funny its boisdarc press... I just noticed my neighbor cut down a bunch of ones on our fence that I had lined out for future use... though they were his trees barely.. I do have a rifle stock from boisdarc too...