Here's some picks of what I'll be carrying in the field this fall. Everything here is custom made, I have real problems with off the shelf parts. They're all made for shorter draws.
That's my Manchu type arrow versus my wife's 28" carbons. They started life as 32" Surewoods Douglas fir, tapered hunter shafts 90-95# spine. They got Reparrows walnut footings and socketed bone nocks to build out to length. The nocks are oval, in true Manchu style, though I have no cherry bark, birch bark or stingray skin to wrap them with. The end where the nock meets is wrapped with sinew and burnished down.
This is my bow, it's Mark Daniels' prototype static recurve. The riser was originally left handed, but epoxy putty and a rasp fixed that, as well as a thumb rest and I cut down the shelf to right on top of my hand. The riser is painted black with epoxy paint with a satin top coat as I'm deathly allergic to Osage, and the riser is Osage and bocote. With the epoxy putty and epoxy paint, my tongue no longer swells when I pick up my bow.
This thing is a beast though, at my 38" maximum draw my scale reads 70#. It feels about like fifty, but it puts arrows through stuff with impunity. I'm still working on repeatable accuracy after the blind spot in my right eye, but it's getting there. Season opens October 15th here, so I have time.
Now you guys know what it takes to suit my draw, and why I ask so bloody many questions.
Anyone know a good source of 11/32 dowels to use my new Arrow-Fix tool on? I'd like to make my own point and nock footings, preferably out of heavier woods. Teak, ipe, leopardwood, those kind of stuff. Any help is appreciated.