Thanks a bunch for the kind words Roy.
Yup...... When i first saw that little plastic compass i said out loud "There ain't no way, no how, I'm going to inlay a cheesy plastic compass into a piece of Black and White ebony... period!"
But....I'm an old softy i guess. Now that it's said and done, it didn't come out looking half bad really.
For quite some time I've had requests for a shorter Sas recurve as well as the TD Sas long bow. I just started building the "Sweet 16" riser this last winter, but hadn't tested any RC limbs on it yet. Roy volunteered to field test the first 60" TD Sas RC for me.
I'm thinking to myself.... "Good grief, most guys are going to think I'm nuts building prototype limbs with Ebony veneers."
Well the limbs really aren't prototypes, but any time you start messing with different riser lengths, and limb lengths, you start changing the geometry. I was quite confident we could pull this off with Roy's 26" draw length with no worries. What i wasn't expecting was the enhanced performance, and much better string angle than i anticipated.
Of course i took a little extra time testing these first few sets of limbs. I would not hesitate at all to build this 60" model for a 30" draw length now. I'm seriously impressed with the results. I think you will be too Roy.
Check out the string angle at 30" here. I still need to run the DFC chart. but a picture is worth a 1000 words. For you discriminating eagle eye types out there, please keep in mind that she was still needing a bit of limb balancing in this tiller tree shot. but you'll still see the string angle.
Here is one more riser picture that really shows the grip angle well. This grip was rather challenging to scale down to Roy's hand tracing and still get the right look to it.
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