Top Choice Custom Bowyer

[Huntnjim]

If you had a choice,,, of the top bowyers today for a longbow build, who would you choose? Let’s just say that cost is no consideration but shootability and looks is on demand. Who would you choose?

[jr1959]

Ron King of Fox archery

[Orion]

If you're talking true longbow, i.e., ASL, Nate Steen, Steve Turay, J.D. Berry.

[lopey15]

Dan and Jared Toelke- Toelke Bows

[strick9]

Loaded question Centaur, Java Man and Big Jim, Caribow, Black Widow and JT traditions make my eyes smile. Doesn't hurt that their performance matches their looks.

[GCook]

Randy Madden.

[Sam McMichael]

For an ASL, I would get another Northern Mist, or perhaps another Howard Hill Archery bow. Good looks, good performance, good customer service.

[Wilder]

Jim Neaves- Centaur Archery

[Maclean]

If you're looking for a takedown, Herb Meland of Pronghorn Custom Bows makes an exceptional 3 piece longbow.

[Walt Francis]

I’m wouldn’t have to leave Montana:
Robertson Stykbow
Bear Paw Archery
Tolke
Schafer
Centaur
Howard Hill
Hurst
Thunder Horn

[acedoc]

Had good experience with Toelkes and great interaction with Kirk of Bigfoot , Jim Neaves of Centaur and Big Jim.

wonder why does Montana  have a cluster of such great bowyers ?

[Bisch]

I’d go with Randy Madden and Primal Tech bows!!!!

Bisch

[zagil30]

I have a Great Northern longbow that I really like.

[JohnV]

What is the selection criteria…speed, smooth draw, bow shock, shoot ability, eye appeal?

[MT STEVE]

Duane Jessop and family (Thunderhorn), Ron King for sure, and the Toelke's

[rastaman]

Too many good ones out there, but if I had to narrow it down I would call Abe Penner with Cari-Bow and add another one of his to my collection.

[David Mitchell]

"Longbow" is a sort of vague term these days.  Are you wanting an ASL (Hill style) or a hybrid--half longbow and half recurve?  Hill style for me would be Howard Hill Archery or Steve Turay of Northern Mist.  Nothing at all wrong with a hybrid--I own a couple but it's sort of hard for me to refer to them as a "longbow".  Lots of good bowyers named above who build hybrids.

[trad_bowhunter1965]

Rich Wormington Yellowstone Custom Bow .

[Terry Green]

This thread got dislocated somehow, probably me running 90mph after all the TX hunts.

Sorry for any confusion. 

[Huntnjim]

A few bows that I have had built in the past but are a little too much bow for me now due to aging and both shoulder rotator cuff surgery’s:
Black tail by norm Johnson, Fox by Ron King, Black Widow by Ken Beck, 21st Century by Jim Plume, A & H by OL Alcock, Longbow by G. Fred Asbell, Longbow by Dick Robertson.. some of these I have had 2 built. My quest is for a longbow with reflex/deflex that has the wow factor in both looks and shoot ability. Prefer center cut. I am considering Jim Neaves at Centaur and Shafer Silvertip by Dave Windauer.