[rsarns]

Seen this on AT and on FB. It looks to have similar geometry to the Best Zenit which I really like. However, this includes limb adjustment. It was designed by Vittorio and Michelle Frangilli. Riser will be available in August....

 

[mwestvang]

Looks like a great longbow riser. LOL

Mike

 

[Jon Lewis]

Looks like a great longbow riser. LOL

Mike

I think Cal has one on order

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[Greysides]

I simply don't know how Italians could have let such an ugly (in BB mode) contraption out in public.

(Sorry Jon.)

 

[rsarns]

I don't like the protruding BB cover, and not impressed with the actual weight of that cover (790 Gr's). The weight system is also a bit light. Overall riser weight of 1430 Gr's sounds nice though. I am impressed with the geometry of the riser, seems to me to be very close to my Zenit riser? I am sure with some machinist help this could be a very formidable BB riser (by manufacturing a heavier cover and weights). ALt Services is supposed to be accepting advance orders, but could not find it on the website. I did email them though...

Mike, I am sure this will be one of my next longbows, I do have another set of limbs coming... LOL

 

[Jon Lewis]

I simply don't know how Italians could have let such an ugly (in BB mode) contraption out in public.

(Sorry Jon.)

Beauty is in the eye of the beerholder Aidan

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[Jon Lewis]

I'm not a fan of that weighted cover I don't think but I like the lines.


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[zafar]

yeah, that protruding weight kinda put me off as well....I wonder if it balances well without the BB cover

 

[Locomo]

Looks to me like the weight can be slid up flush against the riser also. Maybe the cover could be made of different materials for different weights?. Still Cool tho!.

 

[rusty craine]

Europe uses the abbreviation "gr" for gram, right?

 

[rusty craine]

That would make the steel added weight 26.3 ozs

 

[rsarns]

Looks to me like the weight can be slid up flush against the riser also. Maybe the cover could be made of different materials for different weights?. Still Cool tho!.

Looks that way to me also. Would be nice to have a heavy brass one... say something that weighed in the 12OZ class.

 

[rsarns]

That would make the steel added weight 26.3 ozs

LOL.. you may be right, I was thinking grains... too light. Adding 26 Ozs would do the trick...

 

[rusty craine]

LOL.. you may be right, I was thinking grains... too light. Adding 26 Ozs would do the trick...

LoL if not to worry. NASA missed Mars the same way

 

[beerbudget]

Everything is nice except the weight cover and the fugly imprinting on it - unimaginative and crude, very un-Italian-like.

 

[rusty craine]

Everything is nice except the weight cover and the fugly imprinting on it - unimaginative and crude, very un-Italian-like.

OK but what if that awkward weight made the bow balance prefect and you shot it better than any other????

Put a blue whale on the land and it is ugly, put it in the water and it is breath taking. I am just saying

 

[TrevorBB]

Beneath the plate you have a lot of options

 

[Harpman]

Make those hidden weights out of brass, or lead, and then You would have something....The bolt on cover could also very easily be made of brass, and it would be quite hefty...Plenty of legal ways to get a heavy weighted bow inside the steel ring for dedicated Barebow shooting...Sometimes Ya just gotta live with ugly, to get performance...Form follows Function, and all that....I'm very happy with the Spig VBS, but if I were in the market for a Barebow riser, this new Gillo riser would be very high on the list...Jim

 

[DDD]

I could make a brass grip with a vertical brass weight that ran down along the backside of the riser and then incase that with a brass outsert bolted to the riser with silicone foam padding For vibration dampening. Should weight a good 3-4 pounds.

Is this much weight worthy?
Dan