Black Widow Bows

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Kifaru International

Wilderness, Sports, Sports:wilderness, Education

4.9 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Toby Essick, one of the owners of Black Widow Bows, gives some insight into the craftsmanship that goes into making a traditional bow. Black Widow Bows Since 1957 Black Widow Custom Bows has been building traditional archery equipment.Black Widow bows are unique in design and very complex to build. Just the handle alone has up to thirty-seven glue lines (depending on the model) and requires as many man-hours to build as do most complete traditional bows being made today. Lightning fast limbs are tapered and tillered as only Black Widow bowyers know how. The result of all this effort and expertise is a bow.. a legendary bow...a Black Widow bow...whose smoothness, stability and speed will amaze you. As one of our satisfied customers put it, “It’s the only custom bow I’ve ever had, and I’ve had about all of them, that has everything I want. It’s fast, smooth, stable and beautiful too. And all in the same bow!” ... That about says it all. KifaruBecome a Patron!

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0:00.0	Welcome to Kaffiru cast everyone. I'm riding solo on the mic just recently back from Texas and Oklahoma and I have the
0:07.0	The great Toby Essek from Black Widow bows on the other end of the line man. What's up?
0:12.0	I do take that great for delight
0:16.4	So Toby's one of the the one of the three owners of Black Widow. It's Toby
0:21.6	Roger and John correct that's correct. Yep, and you guys bought
0:25.3	Black Widow from Ken Beck and now did Ken Beck own it the whole time or or does somebody own it before that?
0:32.3	Yeah, Ken bought it in the early 80s
0:36.3	From a guy that had worked for the Wilson brothers and the Wilson boys as who started Black Widow back in the 50s
0:43.6	and so Ken was actually the third owner
0:48.0	But the guy between the Wilson brothers and Ken only for a very short time
0:54.2	But Ken bought it in early 80s and we started to work for Ken and
0:59.2	Ken approached us about it in 2005. I believe it was and we bought it in 2005 from Ken
1:05.9	Yeah, I see anybody that follows along with me is seeing a pile of animals in front of me with a with a black widow and
1:12.5	and I don't know how much of a pain it's caused in your life
1:16.4	But recently Denny and Randy and I had had some prototype carbon limbs and I had you built me a
1:21.9	G10 riser, which is one of the things I wanted to cover while we're on here
1:26.6	But you guys have offered you offer
1:29.3	You know multiple different three-piece
1:32.1	Re curves one-piece three curves long bows
1:35.4	What what are the bows in your line right now and what how many different color options or wood options do you have?
1:40.9	Well as far as bow models, I've even got seven models now counting the long bow and the
1:47.0	PSR which is the short recurve with long bow riser
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