Who makes the best looking tips? Trying to come up with idea's. So far my favorites are from Big River with the v spliced phenolic on longbows and Blacktail's diagonal stripe tips. If you have something that's really nice show them off.

Who makes the best looking tips? Trying to come up with idea's. So far my favorites are from Big River with the v spliced phenolic on longbows and Blacktail's diagonal stripe tips. If you have something that's really nice show them off.

I don't have any pictures. But the best looking tip I have seen was on the Dwyer bows I used to have,

Agree, Dwyer tips are the nicest IMO.

Don't know about the best but I really like these.

Whippenstick.

North Archery does some fine work also.

Morrison max 1 sheep.

Dwyer does make some of the best looking tips out there. I agree.

I also have an older Fox longbow crafted by Ron Fox with antler tips that are so tiny, it's hard to believe.

Wide flat limbs don't make for sexy limb tips. The limb tips look better with narrow limbs. That's just me.

Two of my faves:

Big Jim (Buffalo Bow) - B&W ebony/sheep horn:

Dan Toelke (Classic Whip) - bocote/micarta:

The pics are a Dwyer Traditional longbow.

Elk antler I put on Bear TD limbs

Rosewood I put on a longbow. This is the lower tip

Upper tip

I like the tips on my Timberhawks

Those North archery tips do look great

Fox Atchery put horn tips on my Maverick that are nice (don't have a pict)

Here are Drake tips before I cleaned them up. Skookum supposedly invented both the Internet and fancy tips, but he learned from Drake and Mart Mathew.

Joe

I always like Dave Guthrie's tips on his Appalachian Archery bows...... he made them look like a Knaped arrow head.

George Birnie, on his 1961 Rampant Kiltie.

Dick Green, late 50's; just barely a half-inch wide on a 47# recurve.

Wilson White, about 1955; also about 1/2" wide (and with 5 lams in the limb!)

1960 FASCO Phantom, influenced by Wilson White... again, about 1/2" wide and five lams in the limb.

...and last one; I love the simplicity of those oval tip overlays on the old Hoyt Pro Medalists.

Many excellent tips above. I think these are a nice touch. I wish I had a camera so the picture would be better but only have the phone at this time. Appalachian Mountain Archery on a light physical weight recurve.

Frisky, that tip looks like a woman with a size 9 shoe. :)

mine. Jeff F

Fox Archery (Maverick tips) Horn

John, I remember those Dave Gutherie tips had them on one of his Seneca recurves-were unique and nice looking

must of forgot to stick the tip pict on the above

Fox (Maverick) recurve horn

I love the looks of Dwyer tips

Robertson "Primal Styk:"

I really like the dwyer tips alot! J.D Berry hooked knocks are very nice! The horn nocks on English longbows are hard to beat. I had a laminated Frederick longbow with English horn nocks once and it looked great.

Lots of crappy looking tips above! Keep em coming!

Joe

White Wolf Longhunter tips also

Lots of good stuff but so far my favs are the broadhead AMA, and frisky's simple blue tips. Love how the old glass was semi-translucent and fades form a sky blue to a deep cobalt.

Here are my VW tips simple but they are flawless and are perfectly matched to each other, can't tell one from the other.

fox breed

Dan Toelke. Sheep horn.

northern mist baraga

I like mine.

I like these

Here is one of the Big River tips I was taking about.

Maybe arrowflight will post up those top end Blacktail tips.

Lots of bowyers make nice tips. Some make tips that look a bit clunky. In spite of Frisky's comment, the finest tips I've ever seen are Skookum's. Fred is not only particular about the craftsmanship but he also recognizes the role tips play in performance. His tips are not only graceful and extremely well crafted, they are slim and don't add unnecessary nulk to the end of the limb.

Northern Mist!!

My Omega Imperial has the smallest tips of any of my bows. Not flashy but get the job done!

Sorry bad pic above!

I've always liked these:

And these:

And these:

Even these before the bow was finished:

Bodork, love the tips in first pic and last , what kind of bows are those?

A lot of fine looking tips on display.

Nothing better than a nice set of tips! :^)

These are a couple of mine...

I like them on the small side.

Don't have a picture, but the best looking tips I've ever seen are the fluted tips on Frank SanMarco's longbows.

Wolfer

I like em.

Early 60's Swift Wing...delicate, yet robust due to the 70# draw

1956 Root Gamemaster...with tip wedges...

I've always like the snakewood tip overlays on my Dale Dye recurve.

I've always like antler or horn overlays on limb tips, these are on my one piece Schafer Silvertip. Sheep horn, koa veneers.

Pretty good tip work

Some great looking tips here. I especially like that Silvertip, Easykeeper!

Here is a pic just for you Thundermtn!

Some great looking tips here. I especially like that Silvertip, Easykeeper!

Here is a pic just for you Thundermtn!

Love those Blacktails. Thanks arrow

I don't know if anybody has a better looking harem of bows than easy. I wouldn't be able to pick one from the rack. Probably just stand there looking till I ran out of time to shoot.

For me I like it when the tips gracefully feather on to the limbs. They look neat and it shows that the bowyer put his time in the whole bow. Nothing looks worst then a gob of wood or bone that looks like it was just thrown on like a glob of bubble gum.

I would think the limbs would preform better (less hand shock) with the feathered tips. There are some great looking tips out there.

Fred Bear signature bows .... here is mine.

Here are a few ive done...

before:

After....

ooops

Here's a conversion tip non FF to FF compatible using phenolic

Wes Wallace "Mentor" tips - very nice in my book.

Mark Kimber Huntsman recurve tip.

More Huntsman tips.

DOUG MAYS

Be CAREFUL!! You could poke your eye out with those things!!

Not big in the beauty category as far as color goes but in tiny....these have to be up there. 50# Gordon Plastics recurve.

I like mine better than Blue Monday's...:)

Norbert, you do have a nice set. Your bows are looking so good. It's in the German DNA to be anal. LOL Lets see the riser.

Those are awesome beach!

Allegheny Mountain

Schafer Kudu

Oops. Sheep above.

Schafer Kudu

Schafer Cape Buff

That's wax on the Cape Buff above.

Schafer Antler

Schafer Antler

Schafer Antler

Bighorn done by Schafer

Bighorn done by Schafer

Northern Mist , finest I've seen, and real narrow ....

I end up using red core tuff and black phenolic on most of mine plus a piece of wood veneer on top.

You mentioned probably my favorite in your first post, the Black Tail Elite.

I have a Fox High Sierra with antler tips that is pretty nice too.

Sorry I can't do photos.

Surprised no one has posted a pic of James Berry nocks as he calls them. Very nice.

Wish I had a picture of my Marriah Thermal. Ric shapes the elk antler into arrow points. Beautiful and functional..

I like all kinds of tips, and what a great variety on display here! My favorites are on the smaller side. I know some guys (and gals) like 'em big, but I've always thought the slim ones looked more athletic. Among my favorites are these crafted by H. Drake in the late '50s.

My best looking is a footed Bamboo limb and a macarta (I think)tip. Limb is from my stable of Big Horns.

Cool post!

A couple bamboo backed bows...

I have to agree with Dave about the tips of a Drake...here's the one's on my Firedrake. Top view... I think decorative tips are nice but the more material and weight out beyond the string nock the more performance is negatively affected...Larry Hatfield posted info on this...anything beyond where the string seats is extra weight.

And the side...Harry Drake held a lot of flight shooting records.

The drake tips are really cool. Are they linen micarta?

That's what they are...many, many layers of micarta...

Here's Larry Hatfield's comments on tip size that I referenced above. He was answering a question why earlier Howatt's had much smaller tips than later ones and which bowyer's made them that way.

"almost every one of us! damon liked small tips. it took me a lot of years before i found out why. if you notice, the tips do not "flutter" much when you shoot the bow. dan perry showed me one day at the world flights why to eliminate almost all the material above the nocks on a self bow. i tried it on my longbows and would never go back to the standard largwer nock and tip we started using in the seventies. we did that because of peoples difficulty stringing the bows. in the sixties that was not a problem because most of the people shooting them were exprienced with recurves and longbows."

What Larry said he meant was that in the sixties people strung bows without a stringer...

He further commented:

"what dan perry showed me was pretty graphic. we were watching a guy that was shooting primitive flight for the first time. he was building board bows and had about a dozen prety well done except for tillering. the first bow he brought to the line broke on the first arrow and so did the next two. he was getting pretty frustrated. dan asked him if he could alter the next one he brought to the line and said that he would shoot it himself after he altered it. the guy said sure and handed him the bow. dan took out his knife and cut away all but a tiny nub above the nock grooves and then overdrew the bow and shot 6 arrows with no breakage. he told me that the overtravel caused by that extra material was breaking the previous bows. when i got home i ground off all but a tiny "arrow point" on my longbow and saw an immediate difference. no overtravel, no wasted energy, no reason to not do that on all my bows. and, yes, i still brace my bows the old way. never have used a stringer."

Here's a pic of the Howatt early tips...

BTW, I keep a Word document on my desktop and copy and paste Larry's comments into it, especially when bows were built, who built them, what woods were used and interesting stuff like this.

Peter - with a bit of editing and LH's permission, that's surely worth publishing!

Mesquite

Finished mequite with tourquise inlay. John

Brush nock with box elder wood. John

Stoner I really like those mesquite tips they look sweet. I sometimes like to make them from riser scraps.

Other times a real thin piece of antler that looks like it grows out of the limb.

Dave...everything Larry says is worth publishing!!

I have a lot of quotes down...just a matter of organizing it...I can tell what it's about due to my notes on each one but most people could not.

I'll have to discuss that with him at some point.

Chemsolder1 thanks, there's some great ideas here got this thread saved to favorites. Jon

Here's some tips of the day ;) they may get a bit smaller = faster and no vibration to boot. JF

One more comparison. This is on a stringfollow longbow. Osage, maple and Gaboon ebony. Osage is strong,the rest is for looks. JF

Here's one from Frank Eicholtz

Now that one is cool, jaz. JF

Here is my American Native Bushman Longbow.........wing

Talon

I got pretty excited when I miss read the title of this thread.

Here's a few more...1960 FASCO Phantom Pistol Grip...skookum knew his stuff.

This is a late 50's Tri-State Jaguar...

A very old FASCO hunting model...no model

A York Archery Crest that looked like a Pearson Palomino...only one I have seen.

Here's the rest of it...

Mike, get your mind out of the gutter, there isn't room for two of us.......Ha!Ha!

Wing, do you hunt with that talon? Does it get caught on stuff when you go through the thickets and weeds?

Here's a tip from a 1967 Cravotta Brothers, Black Hawk...Short Hornet. They always had some neat overlays.

Trapper, No I don't hunt anymore, except tree rats and ground rats. If you carry the bow parallel to the ground you won't have any problem, if you carry vertical you will hang any bow.

I would put up with any problems just to have that tip, it definitely is an attention getter and just plain different, also that tip is so light it doesn't take anything away from the performance.

Oh by the way that extra groove above the string is where you loop your bow stringer over, it works great and it is the most positive way I have ever seen to string a bow, Thanks for the interest.........wing

You'll never forget your first set of tips !

Amen Shep! :^)

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