Violin bow identification needed !

[petrus of mantua]

Hello and goodbye.

[duane88]

Saw an Ouchard out of the same ring-figured Pernambuco today.

 

Figured Pernambuco. A bitch to plane, even with a scraper plane!

[Blank face]

Saw this wood many times with milled Markneukirchen bows, too. The face plate getting extremely thin to the tip seems to indicate such an origin.

[Jeff Jetson]

I would like to buy a pretty bow like that one but have never seen a bow with figure such as that.

[martin swan]

[Blank face]

I would like to buy a pretty bow like that one but have never seen a bow with figure such as that.

 

The reason that you've never seen one might be, that it's exposured to breakage the more deeply it's figured. Nearly all of the highly flamed sticks I've seen had a crack somewhere (Martin, your example is more at the "mildly" figured side ). It's somekind a decorative object, not really for daily use or a good player.

 

 

Mind the irregularity of growth!

[martin swan]

That's true - I had a very heavily figured French bow with a break in the middle.

But it's very common to find a quite dramatic figure on the finest bows, even Peccattes from nearly 200 years ago. So I suppose there is strong figured wood and weak figured wood.