Ashmead Bows

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The following photos are a small sampling of the models available. I make over 60 different models, many which have never been photographed. If you are interested in a bow that is not represented in the photos please make a note on the Order Inquiry form. All of the ivory used on these bows is fossil ivory, mostly mammoth or Mastodon, with a few buttons out of fossil walrus. I do not use any elephant ivory!

Model ETE Model ETE
Pernambuco or Ironwood, ironwood frog and ivory button button
75-78 grams [Model ETE]
Model ETO Model ETO
Pernambuco, silk wrapping, ivory frog and button 75-78 grams
[Model ETO]
Model ETR Model ETR
Pernambuco,silk wrappings,ivory frog and button
78-80 grams (After Dodd) [Model ETR]
Model ETM Model ETM
Prenambuco, silk wrapping, ivory frog and button 78-82 grams
[Model ETM]

Bow Styles

  • Baroque – Violin
    • Cello/Bass Viol
  • Transitional – Violin
    • Viola
    • Cello
  • Modern – Violin
    • Cello

Ralph Ashmead

Ralph Ashmead

Praise for Ashmead Bows

I had the good fortune this weekend to be playing with Elin Gabrielssohn who had two bows of yours on trial. She has, as you will probably know by now, decided to buy one of them: I should like to buy the other. I had, of course, seen a lot
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I had the good fortune this weekend to be playing with Elin Gabrielssohn who had two bows of yours on trial. She has, as you will probably know by now, decided to buy one of them: I should like to buy the other.
I had, of course, seen a lot of your work – Enrico Onofri, Claudia Combs, Stanley Ritchie and others all use your bows…, but as I have always been happy with my Italian Ghirardelli, I never really considered looking for anything else.
I played for 20 minutes with the bow that Elin ‘didn’t’ want and I was taken.

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Nick Robinson

Contact

Ralph Ashmead
P.O. Box 1411
Tuolumne, CA 95379
1.209.928.1272
ashmead@frontiernet.net

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