| We have had a good idea of a development plan.
The concept has been Materials one year, Shape the next.
The Practicallity of the whole thing is you do get some good ideas, and when you get a good idea, its not worth holding it back sometimes. Hence the Black douglas Hex4 Limb.
The Hex1,2,3 didnt really come about as they were prototypes. There are a few hex3 about but really not many.
The hex3's had full tapered glass fiber as a means of lighter materials, but the carbon in the TX40 gave us what we wanted.
The TX40 is an S2 Glass Limb, which is the same layup concept as the Samick limbs. The Zentron material from what we can gather is almost a S2 Glass. Its a great material. With the strength of meduim Carbon, but weights the same as glass. It did give the Hex4 the kick it needed. The Development also worked its way into our Black series Flat Bows.
We keep this stuff to our selves as patents are not a price we can afford to pay or defend.
There was NO bow company out there using these materials when we picked up the can in 2001 that we are aware of.
S2 Glass was not a common product back then.
The Idea of using materials to gain stored energy by way of stabilising shape is something that other companies far larger than us have not explored. The Idea that we have been hiding untill now, our target Limb prototypes in the Black Douglas range means that the Black Douglas is a trend setting bow, which the big Target companies have not seen. The recurve shape in most modern Target Limbs is a Border Black Douglas Feild Limb, Stabilised by using XP10 Carbon. Which was launched in the Target Limbs in 1998.
The ML2 was our First major leap into shape and our ability to control it.  |