Not trying to get into your business or anything, but where was this shop? Your story sounds suspciously like one of my cousin's little "accidents", right down to the model of the bow. He brought it over to my palce and asked if I could fix it. All I could do is stand there and look at his bow with my jaw laying on the floor.

Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (35 AD - 100 AD)