I travelled up to Walesby to pick up my new Minerva, met Keith Gascoigne and had a tour of the workshops, Keith has a lifetimes worth of anecdotes but amongst many pearls I saw the Marksman Gallery with the original KG1 prototype as well as Keiths personal KG1.I think the KG1 was based on a wooden three piece.... "Portland". KG sounds like Keith Gascoigne had a hand in it.
Shooting the Minerva was amazing, using their range I shot a set of my own carbon arrows and had five in the gold including the first shot ever with the bow.
Keith is indeed a Grand Master Bowyer.