Thanks everybody!..and especially you scott..i'm a lifelong aerospace machinst and not real well hearsed on tooled leather ops but i can only imagine the patience, skill and experience it took to produce such a fine product as your armguard..i'm still in awe at it's fine appearance and amazed at how soft and comfy feeling that chap leather liner is..it's like a newborns bottom against my skin..you sir are one of those hidden gems in the trad world i heard mentioned in another thread and i hope you're around a long time to make others as happy as you've made me..cause i've owned a lifetimes worth of crappy armguards and spent 5X's that throwing them away over the many years..Thanks bud! You Rock!
The Bow: Yet another hidden local gem of a bowyer named steve jewett who makes bushmen longbows...this one is a 64" heavy RD design 43#'s @28" and it's bamboo limbs are smooth as silk gaining almost exactly 2lbs per inch of draw from 23"s all the way to 30"s..almost feels hydraulic..the riser is a double fishtail design with a core of bubinga with fishtail laminates of stabilized burl olive, bocate and zebrawood all separated with black/white phenolic stringers..came with a hand woven beaded stringer (that loops on a 2nd set of string slots at the tips he calls "zulu stringer nocks") and a string keeper/tip protector made of stitched leather with polished antler buttons (to keep the same string twists when unstrung..price?..$725..and to me?..it looks like twice that.
He's only been in biz since 2004 but has a strong local following here and all who own them exude how smooth, quiet yet snappy his longbows are..like scott...i think he does it more out of love and passion than to turn a buck and i think i'm gonna try an talk him into becoming a sponsor here..he still hasta do other forms of custom woodwork to make ends meet and feed his addiction to hunting but last time we spoke he mentioned to me he's looking for some pro level shooters to represent his works...saqys he gets a lot of smooth talkers with what he knows will be empty promises but..if the right guy with appropriate credentials comes along?..maybe you both could help each other out..just figured i'd toss that out there...and hope i didnt break any rules...and please..feel free to disreguard or delete if i did.
Thanks again ALL and I Hope Your Christmas is as Merry as Mine!
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