The Armour Archive

Hello, does anybody of you have some experiences with buying bows in the Czech republic? I have a few weapons from a Lutel company (they make swords etc. www.lutel.cz) and they are very competetive in middle price range (like e.g. italian DelTin). And now I have found a company in the same city who deals with bows (www.luky-jma.cz). They´ve got website only in czech, but I have found what I need in good price, but don´t know more about the quality...
Some experiences with them? It looks really good...

Well, it looks nobody knows anything about them...
Is there somebody interested in bows and cold weapons or am I a solitaire? I thought, that when you are wearing an armour, you need to hold something in your hands to be complete
maybe I am not right. so nobody has any good or bad experiences with Czech?

There are a lot of people who know about bows, just none have bought them from CZ . Persoanlly, i think you'd be much better off looking locally and getting your hands on one. This is a much better indicator of the bows shape than a photo. IMHO.

trochu cestina rozumim.

I personally wouldn't buy from them. The Avar might be okay for SCA use -- but it's definitely not an Avar-style bow. The others are basic recurves, sometimes with weird wallhanger stuff put on them.

Hello Russ, are you from Budapest? That´s quite close to me - I am from Czech But nowadays I am not there...
I have about 10 different weapons from Czech swordmakers "Lutel" and they are really very, very good (I am and active fencer...). I´d contacted them and they told me about the bowmakers - they are friends, so I decided to visit the Luky-JMA company personally to try the bows... I can then write here about it... It will be...well...about the end of next week (I´ll have a trip to Czech...).
But I don´t agree with you about those bows - they look to me quite historic accurate (except the laminate in it ). Let you know next week (maybe also with some photos...