New Gringa Curve

[Brett Finger]

as I have stated,
I LOVE my new cocobolo Gringa recurve !!!
Fing...

[The Ranger]

Looks good Brett, nice grain in the timber of that riser mate. I think you could probably update your target too. It looks like it's seen a few arrows.

Ranger

[Dennis La Varenne]

That design of recurve is exactly the styling I prefer and is reminiscent of the old style recurves before manufacturers starting adding the overdraw feature back in the 1960s and risers went on to look like lumps of 4x2 glued onto the limbs.

Rather than the bow itself, it was these grossly oversized risers that went on to become the principal selling feature using mixed and matched wood grain finishes and often outrageous shaping. They did absolutely nothing for bow performance.

In my collection, I have several old Bear static recurves, both the Grizzly and the Kodiak with their minimalist handle-riserss and I have a couple of Cravotta Brothers and an old Sartain duoflex (aka recurve) style bows. All have the small handle style which the Gringa has and can shoot along with any of the modern recurved bows. It is about time somebody in bowyerdom did a "back to the future" and got away from the unnecessarily oversized risers and concentrated more on elegance of form. After all, it is the limbs which do the work, not the handle. Restraint of form can often conceal surprising and unexpected performance and handling just like a well made English shotgun.

Congratulations on the bow Rod. Very well done indeed.

[UPTHETOP]

Nice looking arrows Brett, Im glad Rod is still making a one piece you just don't see enough of them around these days.

Cheers Wayno

[Dennis La Varenne]

Rod,

Here is a pic of an old Bear Grizzly advertised on eBay after he changed from static recurves to the duo-flex form. Does it look familiar????

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I drew in the red line to show how far ahead of the back of the handle that the tips are. It is very close to 6 inches and puts a great deal of string tension on the braced bow.

The old static recurved had no flies on them either and had a high string tension on them because of the forward position of the tips and the fact that these bows did not have any kind of deflex in the inner limb like the duo-flexes have. they were very heavily reflexed limbs with the static recurve at the end. I can post pictures of the these static recurves if anybody would like to see them.

[Gringa Bows]

Thanks Dennis,i love that style of bow,and yes more pics up if you like mate

[Brett Finger]

yah guys , its a great design..

Dennis , you hit the nail on the head mate, reminds me of the old school curves we shot 35 years ago when I first started Bow-hunting...

I cannot falt the thing in any way, and to be honest, I am shooting with it now as good as I shot wayyyyy back in my hay-day when I could actually hit a few targets....

Kind Regards, Fing...

[GrahameA]

Morning Dennis.

...adding the overdraw feature back in the 1960s and risers went on to look like lumps of 4x2 glued onto the limbs.

Rather than the bow itself, it was these grossly oversized risers ... ... They did absolutely nothing for bow performance.

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The photo shows a bow with a large riser and I am of the opinion that of all the bows I own it is the nicest.

What do you define as performance?