Rob, don't tell me you've never examined an Onieda!?!

Each limb on the bow is made of three components. A stiff lever limb (that curved piece at the ends), a bending power limb and a strong precision hinge. What looks to you like a'damping system' is actually the hinge. The lever limbs are mounted to thehinges whichare mounted to the power limbs. The string stops the lower ends of the lever limbs from going far enough forward to hit the power limbs. So, the lever limbs never contact the power limbs at all, unless the string breaks. And a string breaking will causeexcessivenoise anyway.[:-]