Knife blade outer limbs????

[bownarra]

I’m not impressed with this design. I prefer the pyramid a bit better. Arvin

But these shoot faster than pyramids

[Allyn T]

Arvin are you bows built just for speed or would they hold up for hunting too?

[mmattockx]

That's not a pyramid anymore.  A blend of the two is a sound idea and a little closer to the original idea though.

Fair enough. I was just thinking of a pyramid style taper into the levers, very much like Badger's bows in TBBV4.

But these shoot faster than pyramids

You just had to stir that pot, huh? 


Mark

[ssrhythm]

That’s killer and very close to what I have in my head...from what I understand and think I’ve learned on here and in books so far...for an ideal zippy hunting recurve.  Do you think you could bend those tips into static curves?  Or could you have bent them at that thickness prior to narrowing to knife like proportions?  In my head, I’m thinking that design with some strong recurves and a long loop string would be a super nice shooting hunting machine.  That’s a sweet bow and it’s inspiring.

[Selfbowman]

Arvin are you bows built just for speed or would they hold up for hunting too?

Yes I push the limits sometimes. But that rarely pays off for very long. My 50# record bow would hold up to hunting for years I’m sure. It would take more set from being strung for hours . But still hunt fine. Arvin

[Pappy]

Looks good Arvin, I love the way that style shoots, use to be a guy on here that built a lot of them and I had the pleasure of shooting them at the Classic, they shot pretty dang fast from what I could tell.
 Pappy

[HH~]

I'de hunt it Arvin. Guy up the road has lots of goats to eat his grass. He does not believe in gas lawn mowers I guess. They can wander a bit when hungry. That Rhodesian wonder stick would work awesome on them critters.

Yeah, that's it Arvin. Put some long sweeping reflex hooks on the narrow parts.

I have an Arvin Pyramid bow and I could hunt it anytime. To nice to drag thru my brush infested holler.

Shawn~

[maitus]

I like similar design. I think that those corners between syahs and limbs are just excessive weight and slow the bow down? They don't do any work. But they look cool . Great bow!

[PatM]

The original did not have those shoulders. They were much more refined in the transition.