Hair; Heh, actually a short recurve type bow, similar to the ones the Plains Indians used when they buffalo hunted from horseback. A short powerful bow, meant to drive arrow through a buffalo at close range, 10 feet or so. Since there aren't many horse mounted buffalo hunts around here, I'm making the bow with a target weight.
Sam, haven't seen it but another archer did and said the bows looked good to him. The yumi bow is quite different than most we're familiar with, it has two recurve angles in the upper limb and one on the lower. Generally laminated bamboo construction. Also, they are being made out of fiberglass now since the handmade bamboo versions are very pricey.
Best get to the tillering tree, SYL
On the archery discussion, when you mentioned the buffalo bows being different than what we're familiar with, it got me thinking about different types of foreign bows, which reminded me of a discussion I had recently about bows which are fired with help from the feet--think they use those in Korea. Have you ever seen/used one of those?