my dad has done this about 6 times over his 86 years. In fact, he just finished one up around last Christmas. He cant pull it back to full draw anymore, but its pretty nice for harvesting from his own land and doing with mostly simple hand tools. No, not museum quality, well, maybe if your talking neanderthal quality

but it does work..
Oh forgot the last two were laminates of hickory and sycamore. I have no idea how he split the sycamore though.. That stuffs tough as hell.