An old friend I used to go hunting with back in the day was diagnosed with incurable cancer of his throat and a year later passed away. His Cancer never got him down until the last minute.
On occasion Fred would make a bow and carry it along with his Recurve on hunting trips to shoot around. Fred went on a bow making rampage for his last year. He made at least 6 bows that I know of and heard he made even more experiments, some with fir over 5 inches wide.
His last bow was a bow made of vine maple and was given to his brother in law. The amount of love and care that when into this bow was apparent straight away, and as I got a chance to shot it I fell in love with the design. 64 inches long, about 2″ wide at the fades, white leather handle.
Sometimes I wonder if I found out tomorrow I had Cancer what the last bow I would make would be ?
R.I.P. Fred