Brothers and Sisters, we will now wait for an interpretation.
"Oh ye of little faith, behold, the LORD shall smite thee. And forsooth, the smiting shall be wondrously terrible...."
No?
Heh - a thin strip of bamboo is glued to a thin strip of osage wood on a form. A piece of 'cocobolo' an exotic hardwood with a definite reddish color is glued on and then shaped with a rasp into the handle section with an arrow shelf (arrow pass). The combination of which produces a high performance laminated wood bow. Darn near duplicates performance of fiberglass.
I believe G'nad saw some of them at MoJAM. Dryad Bows had a booth there.