What would you call this bow design?

[HH~]

Yes
What Pat said.


HH~

[silent sniper]

Thanks everyone for the opinions. I will call this one a deflexed recurve. I will make sure my future designs are more easily distinguishable 

Thanks,
Taylor

[sleek]

It's a DRC

[Marc St Louis]

This is closer to a Duoflex http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php/topic,5717.msg79200.html#msg79200

[AndrewS]

@silent sniper

What is the current brace height for your new bow?
It looks to me as if the bow with 1 inch more brace height  has much less contact between string and limbs at the tips.
For me it is more a R/D bow or Hybrid with a non- / minimal working reflex.

The boundaries between bow types are probably fluid.

[Selfbowman]

A beautiful bow!!!!  rest don’t matter. Arvin

[hoosierf]

It’s in my dining room and I call it really cool!  And fast!  Woot woot!

[DC]

So if that isn't an RD, what is?

[silent sniper]

@silent sniper

What is the current brace height for your new bow?
It looks to me as if the bow with 1 inch more brace height  has much less contact between string and limbs at the tips.
For me it is more a R/D bow or Hybrid with a non- / minimal working reflex.

The boundaries between bow types are probably fluid.

This bow has a brace height of 7" from the back of the bow at the arrow shelf to the string. From the belly of the bow at the beginning of the fade to the string is 6".  This is the normal brace height I run on my stiff hand bows.

It’s in my dining room and I call it really cool!  And fast!  Woot woot!

I am glad you are loving it Hoosier!

So if that isn't an RD, what is?

DC, Maybe a deflex semi-recurve is the best term. The bow shares characteristics of a deflex recurve and a R/D longbow. I dont think the bow can be classified as a longbow but the tip curves are not full blown sharp recurves either. Hence the idea of a Semi-Recurve.  If you do a google search on the Fred bear cub or fred bear alaskan bow you can see what was originally classified as "semi-recurves" back in the 1960's.

Again the name of the design means almost nothing, but it would be nice to have a classification that everyone agrees on. I think a deflexed recurve or semi-recurve are both perfectly adequate classifications for this bow.

Thanks,
Taylor

[Deerhunter21]

Fast! Pretty! Awesome! 

[avcase]

Looks like we need a definition book. Alan, were you responding to my post or the thread in general?

I meant to give a general statement about how the bow would be classified.  I think it doesn’t matter so much unless it is intended to be used for some kind of competition where the rules may draw a sharp line between Recurve and Longbow. In this case, it is a Recurve. Raise the brace height a bit and it’s may fit the definition of a reflex-deflex Longbow.

[bassman]

To me it is a semi recurve. Very nicely done. no matter what you call it.

[bjrogg]

I'm with Arvin. Nice bow. If I was going to call it something it would be a name. A nice name.
Bjrogg

[burchett.donald]

   D-Curve.....................and there ya go.......      Nice....