Kinky Black Swan FULL DRAW PIC ADDED

[vermonster13]

These limbs were computer generated back when Arvid was a lead engineer at Hewlett Packard. Pretty wild lines, smooth as silk though. Not quite as fast as the regular Curve and not as quiet. Fun to play with though, and no they aren't going to be up for sale, at least not until a few things get ironed out. The riser is the new belly mount though and will be available in low and medium wrist and take the same limbs as the the back mount but the limbs will be 3# lighter on this riser and handle much longer draw lengths with the short limbs.

 
 

[Over&Under]

Ya I think that would take some getting used to.   :eek:  

Pretty cool idea though!  Thanks for sharing that with us Dave.  

[Cyclic-Rivers]

Could we see a picture at full draw?  Curious to see a profile.

[FerretWYO]

That is pretty crazy.

[vermonster13]

I will try to get some when I have someone here to take the pic. If my wife knew I strung a bow and shot it right now she'd kill me.(Had three stents put in my heart 1 week ago)

[Mike Mecredy]

Wow! that's crazy! How's that even work, it seems those curves "in the wrong direction" would cause a hinge or something (a hinge being unique to the selfbow world, usually).  If not that took some engineering waaaaaaay beyond something I'd attempt.  

That looks amazing. David, don't go doing yourself any damage or anything, take your time, but I'd like to see how that looks at full draw as well.

[vermonster13]

The bow is 37@30 Mike and feels like about 10#s, no worries.

[2treks]

Stop that David. Behave.
Chuck

[2treks]

The bow looks cool by the way.
I saw a longbow about 8-10 years ago that had some wavy limbs, not as pronounced as this bow tho. Did not shoot it. I can't remember who made it.
Chuck

[vermonster13]

Mon River and Bill Stewart(multi-cam) have made bows with much less pronounced "waves" in the limbs.

[Orion]

Didn't some bowyer/manufacturer quite a few years ago make a one piece recurve with limb something like that. Called it a duoflex I believe.

[vermonster13]

Tim Meigs made the duoflex and I don't recall any looking quite like this.

[2treks]

The wilcox duo flex? was not quite like that. Arvids design is alot more radical than the others. David, I think it was the stewart I am thinking of. I saw a BIG EAST bow that looked pretty wild to,it had a deflexed tip. (????)
Chuck

[tippit]

Pretty amazing look to those limbs.  I'd like to see it at full draw too...But with someone else doing the pulling!  You take it easy...Doc

[Jesse Peltan]

Is it smoother than the regular recurve? What does the bend in the limbs do?

[katie]

cool!

[vermonster13]

Smoothest drawing bow I've ever shot. Need to get it so it's quiet though. Not bad, but not good enough compared to the standard Curve.

[monkeyball]

I had one of those Mon-River's.It was a Venom. Beautiful Osage riser and limbs.It got a lot of stares. At 56" and 53# @ 28" it was a snappy compact
bow.

                          Craig

[Gerry]

Pretty cool Arvid did a lot of shooting event including the most number of Robin Hood in a set time.  They remind me of the Bill Stewart Bows but more dramatic.

[TooManyHobbies]

That's ummm, what's the word......oh, yeah...UGLY!  :eek: