no..... i was just experimenting....the limbsavers makesome difference...the extra silencers didnt.

Hey Alpha Capo I see on your fine looking bow that you have the limb savers closer to the riser. Is that where they should be on a recurve? I have my limb savers on my Great Plains takedown recurve closer to the top tips of the limbs.

Hatchet Jack

you know i wonder the same thing????

...i just didnt want to put them on a part of the limb that works real hard...so i put them a couple inches up from the end of the fadeout....i thought about peeling them up and resticking them higher up to see what the difference is, if any....stickem where you want them.... my guess is that they work best as close to the tips that you can get them...i just didnt want to stick them there.

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.).

I like the maple in your bow also Alpha. Very nice looking bow.

Good looking bow, thanks for the picks, I think that the Falcon is what I am going with.

Have owned a lot of bows over the last 50years or so, including several "customs", but never had a Bob Lee, so I can't comment on them. I did/do have a bad shoulder problem and had to sell everything and buy new a few years ago when I had to drop 15-20# in draw weight. Bought a CheckMate Thunderbird first and wanted to add a recurve so I bought a Falcon. It is one of the best (if not the best) recurves I have ever owned & shot! Not fancy, not expensive, but a great bow for a very reasonable price!!!!!!!!!!! I got a shedua riser & walnut limb laminations and it looks good, too!