If you’re comfortable with the weight then the
Mybo are decent and good value. Especially as the old model is now on the secondhand market.
The B-Stinger Block is very good but make sure you get the one with the deeper socket head bolts. The earlier button head bolts will round.
The
Easton is very like the Stinger but a bit heavier.
Easton and the Stinger are “toothed” so one moment of carelessness and you can wreck the teeth.
If your pockets are deep Sjef has a walkthrough of the
Doinker, Shrewd and Axcel on YouTube. Even if it is out of your price bracket it might give you an idea about what you want/ don’t want.
I have heard good things about the Gillo which is pretty economical (but looks alarmingly like the old Arten bars that were crud). Again, no personal experience.
The W&W Carbon looked interesting but I’ve seen some pretty poor write ups. I have no personal experience of that product.
The robustness of cheaper v-bars just depends on how much mass you intend to put on it and how much shock and vibration you have in your setup. If you shoot light rods with a couple of oz then most will probably hold up just fine. If your running 15” rods with 10oz each then the exotic is probably better value.
If this is your first v-bar with adjustment you might want to buy a quality bar second hand on eBay and see if it really is what you want before dropping a bundle on a new high end bar. Things like the old
Doinker Platinum are bomb proof and swap hands for not a lot of cash. They don’t work with a fat extender though. (I can’t use mine with a Easton Pro-link/Contour extender.)
I drank the kool-aid and tried this style setup but it only worked for me if I had 6 or 7 oz on the sides, so that meant 8oz on the longrod + 6 to 8 oz of bar. Too heavy for me, it felt nice, was rock solid but the results... not so much. So I saved 20oz by going back to a 4” extender with 40 deg flat
Shibuya Caruno.
YMMV
Stretch