Greg -- Your choice of Zebra wood is a good one. It should be beautiful. If you want to get a Bow Bolt (which I highly recommend for the same reasons stated by others), you will want to check with Gregg Coffey to see what he recommends for strength. I just sent my foam core Classic Hunter (which is the first foam core Shrew built) back to Gregg so he could show it at Kalamazoo. It is wonderful. The foam cores in the limbs are very stable and consistent and tend to add some smoothness and a little speed to the bow. The carbon will add more speed to the longbows without sacrificing the other great characteristics of those bows. Carbon backing won't work well on low to mid poundage recurve limbs like on the Scout and Lil Favorite. But the recurves are faster anyway, so it is really not a big deal to eliminate carbon as a recurve option. I like both the Shrew recurves and the longbows and have both. I do prefer the short riser Shrews -- the Classic Hunter and the Lil Favorite -- for a number of reasons. I have on order a foam/carbon Classic Hunter and a foam core Lil Favorite, both 56" and both with Bow Bolts, that will be built in July. The carbon backs on the bows are typically covered with fiberglass, but they can also be covered with exotic hardwood veneers that look really great. The veneers are just finished with a poly coating, not fiberglass, so there is an argument that they might not be quite as durable; however, basically the same protective coating is used with snakeskin covered limbs and with hardwood risers, and most people do not complain about their durability. I plan to get the hardwood veneers on my foam/carbon longbow limbs, but I also like Wally's idea of an all black bow. It would be the perfect pop up blind bow.
Wally -- I think that 56" Lil Favorite that Ron and Gregg will have at Kalamazoo is a one piece, if that makes any difference to you. I imagine Ron and Gregg are going to have a difficult time keeping the Shrews on display at Kalamazoo because people will be buying them so fast and taking them home. Just don't take off with the two bows of mine that will be there on display (a 56" Classic Hunter one piece with Texas ebony/black phenolic riser and macasser ebony veneered foam core limbs, and a 54" Lil Favorite one piece with brown Dymondwood/black phenolic riser and curly birch veneered actionboo core limbs)!!!
Bow Bolts would be nice, but by this summer I will have three Shrews with Bow Bolts, so I will happily deal with the "burden"
of a few one piece models.
Allan
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