also,

those pictures dont do the maple in the riser and limbs justice(sometimes i think i shouldhave gotten the whole thing done in maple)....the limbs have some nice flame figure to them when the light hits right...every piece of woods alittle different and i always see bows with maple limbs but they always have black glass over them.....

the reason is because some guys think that the maple is ugly....

i think it looks really nice with clear glass...

honestly ive never seen a peice of maple that i didnt like, wether its super white and plane jane strait grain with no Eyes or flame......or highly figured and loaded with eyes.

the Cocobolo is real nice..... great red color and heavy black grain. Chek-Mate does a great job for the price....there is no flaws on my bow anywhere.

my favorite thing about the way the bow is made is the Satin finish, it doesnt look overdone like alot on the high gloss finishes, and it feels great in the hand.....its a very understated, very nice look.

and it shoots just as good as any...

it was kind of noisy for a while(someone else might not have thought it was, im picky)but i have that settled now that shes in her sweet spot.


one more thing is that the grip size is perfect to me...my hands are medium size but i have long fingers(not freakish) some guys have shorter fingers....other than that overlay wrapping around the back of the shelf its perfect(in pic 3 you can see what im saying.).