W.R.Schuster Master Silver IPE Concert Violin Bow

W.R.Schuster Master Silver IPE Concert Violin Bow Extremely Strong Stiff Bow with Fast Response! Excellent balance. Powerful tone. Professional performance! This bow belongs to our Pro Master IPE series!!! 100% handmade by one high-skill maker beginning till the end! Well air dried. Good strength and flexibility balance. Shape: Round; Model: Master Bow; Wrap: Leather; Frog: Ebony Silver; Weight: About 60 +-2gram/2.2 OZ; Hair: "AAA" Level Mongolia Horse Hair. f you only cared about the playability and tone of your bow, this is the bow to buy. IPE is a fast growing wood that has physical properties that is 90% of a top pernambuco. This makes it an extremely good source of wood for making bows. While this wood is more commonly adopted in Europe and among European makers, it is less commonly used in US and Asia. But in many double blind tests, this bow has outperformed pernambuco bows. Many European bow makers have used IPE and has continued to use it for their bow lineups, and some have even won prestigious bow making competitions using IPE bows. The best advantage IPE has over pernambuco is cost. It is a fast growing tree and hence it is easily replenished. Another advantage is the texture is very close to a pernambuco bow. In fact, we have observed many vendors to sell IPE bows as pernambuco, probably to make it easy for people to understand about the quality.