Untreated, seasoned pernambuco wood sticks
Planing the head with a plane
Drawing the bow head after a model
Cutting out of designed head shape using a jigsaw
Hair mortise of the frog to fit the hair
The hair is immersed in rosin.
The hair is fastened in the head using a plug.
Combing the hair when hairing the bow
Fastening the hair in the frog
Insert the slide when hairing the bow
Carving and planing the wood depending on weight and strength
Bending the stick
File down the neck to the required strength
Checking the strength of the stick with a calliper
Adjusting height and shape of the bow head
Adjusting the frog to fit the stick
Bending the entire stick
DÖRFLER BOWS RADIATE THROUGH
FIRST CLASS WORKMANSHIP
The Dörfler Master Bow is a hand-crafted top-quality product. Only the finest and exquisite materials are used to guarantee a long life cycle.
Pernambuco wood is used predominantly. It is the only wood which meets the high standards of flexibility and resilience required to manufacture a Dörfler Master Bow. And it is a prerequisite for the masterly art of giving the bow, through exact bending, the greatest possible tension and the ideal weight balance.
The bow hair consists exclusively of natural white horse hair from selected steppe horses of Central Asia. Hair which neither waves nor becomes rotten.
The elaborate mother-of-pearl and precious metal mountings on the non-porous ebony frog are valuable refinements which give the Dörfler Master Bow its typical appearance and a long life.
