He early on recognised the merits of French bows and spent his entire life studying and emulating the work of particularly Voirin and Tubbs. There is very little about his work that is German and in many ways he is more "un-German" than his better French counterparts. Playing with an Adolf C. Schuster bow is similar to playing with a Tubbs, the properties of which he copied with an extraordinary degree of success - they have the same light suppleness that is so sought after and appreciated in good French bows, yet with just the right degree of firmness and balance not to detract from the suppleness but yet which gives more direct control over the string without becoming hard or weighty. In my own experience I found that the A C Schusters I have used in fact at times superseded the Tubbs bows I have tried in their control, balance and general response to what the player intends and asks for. These are excellent bows.

During the Second World War many bow makers struggled to obtain silver for their work and settled for nickel or silver nickel in their frogs. This probably accounts for this bow's frog being of nickel silver although the frog bears the Schuster crest. And it would also help to date this bow to some time in the Second World War probably around 1940.

This bow is marginally firmer than many other Schusters I tried and owned, and apart from excellent balance and response, it has extraordinary articulation.