Jack. Imagine a Bakery, set up to make French sticks. They could bash them out faster than a fast thing on a fast day.
The reason is. all thier ovens, mixers and weight scales are all setup to roll those long battons of bread.
Now. someone comes along with a new and improved french stick, Its horse shoe shaped.
imagine the chaos. OH... cant get as many in the oven.
The baging dept is completely NOT set up for it.
The wrapping is different.
I cant get as many in a box. so i need new boxes.
BUT. I have 90% of my product line. simply WONT allow us to use the new shape.
So lets have a look at the costs of limbs.
You need clamps/jigs to hold the limbs, for the nocks. and the string grooves.
You would need new ones.
the grinding in of the profile. MIGHT need wider belts.
The deeper hook requires a taller sanding belt to accomodate the full height
The forms would need to be changed.
Then you would need in Hoyts case. A totally new spine chart, and retrain all the team coaches.
MAN WHAT AN UPHEAVAL.
it gets more complicated than that.
The base limb, the bread and butter of bow making. It would need to retain the original shape
since our Hex series simply WOULDNT work in a plain jane glass/wood core.
SO any production line, would need a new setup. a new line. for NOT that many limbs.
Remember that top end sales are the small end of the market.
you wouldnt want to commit the cheap end of the product line, the ones thats price sensitive. to expensive carbon stabilisation layers.
So to accomodate the two profiles = ALOT of costs.
Its easier to buy brady ellison.
Its easier to be the chairman of the IOC, its easier to buy the Oly team. Free bows to anyone that makes it.
its just simply easier.
(please note that syntactic foam is mentioned in the diagram of a bow in the FITA manual. Its a patented Hoyt concept. Name another patented concept in the governing body manual)
So what are we talking about in terms of new formers.
Well.
here is a freshly glued up hex5.
Now lets have a look at the actuallity of glueing up these.
look at the 0.47 seconds mark on this video, and explain to me how this vertical press system can Easily copy the hex5 profile without locking onto the former?
now. ID LOVE W&W, SAMICK, Hoyt or any of them to copy the profile.
ID SIMPLY LOVE IT.
because that would mean we could release the Hex7. prooving thier still behind.
heheheeee... as soon as they admit it. They would be admiting there is a better profile.
Now. We dont go though dealers that much. so you might find that its dealers that sponcer local top shots.
That rules us out.
Those hotshots get put forward to manufacurers. and since we dont pander to top shots. they walk past us.
We have some top archers who have asked to be given our product.
We return a email saying NO. If we gave you a bow how would our independednt top shots feel.
Lets just see what next year brings in the barebow fita Fields.
and LETS NOT forget the UUkha limbs. they might prompt the big players to pull thier socks up.
afterall.
what is W&W's mantra. Speed, stability and smoothness.
Well from what i know, they are loosing out in at least 2 of these to an UUkha. So they best pull thier socks up.
I see a future of deeper hooks thats for sure.