[willy]

I believe that fellow is shooting from a spot I have shot many times, it looks exactly the same anyhow, Eastern Traditional Archery Rendezvous Denton Hill PA.
Blue not for nothing but something for you to consider. You do not have to go back to the stone age to have the feel you are looking for. Making your own equipment can be done a multitude of ways, all good.
You can make a stave bow (one piece) long bow or indian style flat bow or even a recurve. All very traditional.
You can make the same bows with a backing, cherry bark, sinew, rawhide, bamboo. All very traditional.
You can make the same bows with billets( two short pieces) joined in the handle area with a long finger type joint. And backed anyway you want. Popular with yew longbows due to it being tough to find long one piece staves with a straight enough grain. Very old and traditional also.
You can make laminated all wood bows, a la Dean Torges mentioned previously, also very old and traditional.

Or you can make a longbow or recurve or short flat bow out of laminated layers of wood backed front and back or just on the back with clear or colored fiberglass. Also very tradiitional. Only real difference is the material used for backing (fiberglass). These bows are what tradtional archery went to in the early fifties due to the durability of the others and the consistent performance of the bow.
A all wood bow or all laminated bow will change in performance and durability with humidity levels and tempertures. That change can be dramatic to say the least and if you are hunting in the rain some will outright fall apart or take a big set (limbs bent backwards) and performance will drop tremendously causing all kinds of problems with arrow flight, hunting performance etc. Modern epoxy finishes have eliminated some but not all of that.
That is why the old school ( ;D) archery greats went immediately to the glass backed bows when it came out in strips they could use. My heroes, Howard Hill Fred Bear Swineheart etc etc.
You can still make these type bows and many guys do. You can use a thin layer of clear glass to get the beauty of the all wood bows and you can still make your own arrows and mount your knapped points on them. You will shoot better, your grandkids will be handing down your bows and they will still shoot like the day you built it.
Just something to think about. Either way it is still as it always was the KIng of Sports ;)