Rothhaar recurve

[Lamplighter]

Anybody ever hear of this bow ?  Any good ?

[BuckeyeGuy]

Dad has one at home on his rack, always shot good for him.  You looking up info on them?

[JohnV]

Made by Alan Rothhaar of Michigan who is related to whitetail hunter Roger Rothhaar.  Alan was making some bows in the mid-1980's when I lived in Michigan.  Nice bows.  If memory serves me correct his design had some similarities to Assenheimer bows which would not be suprising since Roger shot one at that time.

[Interseptor]

John is correct.  I spoke with Allen years ago about his bows.  If you find an old addition of Dan Bertalan's Bowyers bible, there is a section on Allen's bows.

[Lamplighter]

I found one.  It looks like a fine bow.


 http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=363639625

[Ryan Rothhaar]

Like John said Alan built these bows in the 80's, maybe into early 90's.  Alan is my first cousin (makes him Dad's nephew, if my math is right    ).  I know they had some pretty good hook to the recurve and he tried to get them to shoot pretty fast.  I never shot one myself.  I know he hasn't built any for years, occasionally someone pops up looking for limbs or something - so some are still in use.

R