All timbers used in Gecko Longbows are carefully selected against a range of criteria.
A range of high performance and exotic materials are used for the bows in the handle or limbs.
Some of the Timbers used in Bows include:
Albizia
American Walnut
Bamboo
Used primarily as a core material in the limbs to which a veneer or laminate is applied.
Beefwood
from Grevilia
Bubinga
Bunya Pine
Burdekin Plum
Coachwood
Huon Pine
extremely rare and hard to get in sizes suited to making a bow
Mountain Ash
Myrtle
Purple Heart
Yes this is the real colour
Rock Maple
Rosewood
New Guinea or Indonesian Rosewood
Sassafras
Silky Oak
Tassie Blackwood
Wenge
Zebrano
