[willy]

What you should do first is locate suitable wood for bows and start seasoning them now. If you can find seasoned wood appropriate for bows to start that would be good, seasoned staves with a good grain pattern are available from a lot of places, just get it from a bowyer or someone with experience in what to look for, there is nothing more disheartening than working for days on a stave only to find there is a problem with the wood, the grain runs in to much of a twist to function or the wood was dried to quickly and is brittle and sanps as soon as any bending pressure is applied.
Ask me how I know? ::)