Some will recognize the shop pictures if not the bow itself.

This is another bow sold by Trad Gang!

It is LH, 60", 49#@26" and 43#@26". BW Ebony riser, limb back veneers and accents. There are two layers of carbon in these limbs. The limb face is carbon.

 

 

 

 

Pretty bow Roy!  Beaut!

Great looking bow..really like the Black and White Ebony..bet it shoots as good as it looks..!

cool

I wonder where I have seen that Bow before,      You have good taste in bow woods.  RW

Looks like Kirk did it again...very nice!

A few more details:

Grip throat is 4.75".
Riser is 16" (shorter to make a 60" bow with "62" limbs).

I asked Kirt to install a Bear Compass (black) below the grip on the window side.

Yep, Roy ... my wife is going to block both your and Billy's e-mails and posts. She's terrified one of you is going to buy a Harley next!

I hadn't planned on the extra, lighter set of limbs but like Everest, 'they were there'.

Here are more pictures.

I don't think Kirk will mind me sharing that he had reservations about adding the Compass to this riser. I love these compasses and because this bow has quite a lot of black accent I thought it would look good.  Of course Kirk's final words to me were "it is your bow".

Kirk is satisfied too I think.

This fellow (Kirk Lavender) has been a pleasure to communicate with as this bow was being built. He and I discussed many things about many aspects of this bow.  I learned a lot and my appreciation for the bowyer's craft has been further enhanced.

Nice  

So that's what it looks like when you check every option box on the order form    

Pretty cool!!

Thanks a bunch for the kind words Roy.  


Yup...... When i first saw that little plastic compass i said out loud "There ain't no way, no how, I'm going to inlay a cheesy plastic compass into a piece of Black and White ebony... period!"

But....I'm an old softy i guess. Now that it's said and done, it didn't come out looking half bad really.


For quite some time I've had requests for a shorter Sas recurve as well as the TD Sas long bow. I just started building the "Sweet 16" riser this last winter, but hadn't tested any RC limbs on it yet. Roy volunteered to field test the first 60" TD Sas RC for me.

I'm thinking to myself.... "Good grief, most guys are going to think I'm nuts building prototype limbs with Ebony veneers."

Well the limbs really aren't prototypes, but any time you start messing with different riser lengths, and limb lengths, you start changing the geometry. I was quite confident we could pull this off with Roy's 26" draw length with no worries. What i wasn't expecting was the enhanced performance, and much better string angle than i anticipated.

Of course i took a little extra time testing these first few sets of limbs. I  would not hesitate at all to build this 60" model for a 30" draw length now. I'm seriously impressed with the results. I think you will be too Roy.

Check out the string angle at 30" here. I still need to run the DFC chart. but a picture is worth a 1000 words. For you discriminating eagle eye types out there, please keep in mind that she was still needing a bit of limb balancing in this tiller tree shot. but you'll still see the string angle.




Here is one more riser picture that really shows the grip angle well. This grip was rather challenging to scale down to Roy's hand tracing and still get the right look to it.

Beautiful work and gorgeous veneers.  I think the level that you two worked together to pull this bow off speaks volumes about your dedication to your craft Kirk, and your commitment to your customer.        

That's a really awesome looking bow.

Kirk, like all your bows, this is a beauty and no doubt a magnificently performing machine.

I can imagine the hesitation of dropping a piece of plastic and water in a piece of B&W, the care to get that block to an unchecked and workable piece alone would cause ulcers...

That is one all-out, bad-dude-lookin' bow!

And Mr. Bigfoot has pretty good penmanship, too...  No joke; it adds a classy element to that bow!

It's always good to see Kirk's work on display.  I've never handled nor shot one, but I've got a pretty good idea that those bows are done right.

SWEEEEEET  

Looking forward to my 58" Sasquatch TD coming shortly. I checkout every post and review of Big Foot and get that much more excited!  

SOS Roy,that thing is beautiful,congrats for the woods of choice and to Kirk work.

Roy...as a buyer of a few of your bows, I can't wait till you sell this one to me!