Now I understand why David Russell Young abandoned guitar-makimg and started making violin bows. I have worked with wood all my life and I cannot for the life of me see how these sort of prices can be justified. I mean, you can buy a really nice handmade guitar for under $3000. How many hours go into making a bow, compared to making a guitar?

While I can appreciate that pernambuco of the right quality is fairly rare and hence expensive, manufacturing the thing once you have the wood is not rocket science, neither does it require Michelangelo-like woodcarving skills.

IMHO, a gigantic rip-off.

Murray