I mark a new chapter and a new beginning with my tenth anniversary as an established, self-employed bow maker. For a decade, I have been established as The Bow Surgery. The name implies repairing and fixing bows, but there is far more to my work, and to reflect this I have changed the name to The Bow Business. The broader title is better suited to cover the many facets to my work, which include bow making, in-depth restoration, testing new materials, buying and selling old bo

Among a musician’s worst nightmares must be one of irreparable damage to their instrument or bow. The restoration of fine bows using carbon fibre reinforcement is a modern technique being researched at The Bow Business. In this way, high quality bows which have been severely damaged may be returned to playing order. Sometimes we see a bow which has a short crack going through the stick, for which the only traditional repair would be some form of splice using a section taken f