With pernambuco becoming scarce, bowmakers around the world are seeking alternative materials to ensure the legacy of quality wood bowmaking continues. The master bowmakers at Arcos Brasil are doing just that by offering Ipe as an alternative. Comparable in quality, appearance, and response, the ipe bows we have evaluated here are every bit as good as the comparable pernambuco bows we have grown to love and admire.

• Round ipe stick

• Ebony frog w/ silver mounts

• Weight: 70g

• Stamped: “T. Pampolin Brasil"

The stick is of light brown ipe, round in shape changing to octagonal at the butt end. The frog is of ebony and silver with a pearl eye at each of the faces. The three-piece button is of ebony and silver ending in a pearl eye.

Tiago Pampolin has been making bows since 1993, after learning from master bowmaker Adriane Lima. Pampolin favors Peccatte style bows.