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Title: cool it with the Hill styles already!
Post by: Echatham on November 08, 2013, 08:07:00 PM
i got two selfbows at floor tiller, and a stack of staves and billets.... and now you guys gotta go and get me thinkin bout glass.  i don't wanna do it!  but you guys are just gonna make me aren't ya.... what with your fancy schmancy cocobola risers and all....     :laughing:
Title: Re: cool it with the Hill styles already!
Post by: jsweka on November 08, 2013, 08:11:00 PM
:biglaugh:    :biglaugh:
Title: Re: cool it with the Hill styles already!
Post by: Echatham on November 08, 2013, 08:24:00 PM
yeah.... YOU!!!    :mad:  

  :biglaugh:
Title: Re: cool it with the Hill styles already!
Post by: cylyntbowyer on November 08, 2013, 08:35:00 PM
Nothing like a hill style to permanently get under your skin!!
Title: Re: cool it with the Hill styles already!
Post by: jsweka on November 08, 2013, 08:47:00 PM
Mmmmmmm....doesn't that cocobolo and black glass look classy.  You know you want to build one don't you Eric.    :laughing:  

 (http://i954.photobucket.com/albums/ae23/jsweka/BowBuild/CAM_1808.jpg)
Title: Re: cool it with the Hill styles already!
Post by: Echatham on November 08, 2013, 08:54:00 PM
Stop!  im almost buzzed enough to pm kenny for some lams lol!  last time i had a few beers and wanted something like this.... i bought a grizzly bandsaw    :rolleyes:
Title: Re: cool it with the Hill styles already!
Post by: jsweka on November 08, 2013, 09:13:00 PM
LMAO!

Kenny has glass and cocobolo too.
Title: Re: cool it with the Hill styles already!
Post by: soy on November 09, 2013, 01:13:00 AM
here here I could not resist the temptation either   :laughing:
Title: Re: cool it with the Hill styles already!
Post by: Roy from Pa on November 09, 2013, 07:22:00 AM
Sounds like ya got some type of glass disease. Maybe ya need to see a shrink. LOL
Title: Re: cool it with the Hill styles already!
Post by: Bowjunkie on November 09, 2013, 10:11:00 AM
I don't have a problem resisting glass bows... especially Hill-style since I don't particularly care for them. I have problems getting motivated to make ANY type of glass bows after I've seen what's possible without it. I designed a new hybrid longbow and had the press made for a couple years before I used it to glue up a bow, and now that first blank leans unfinished against the bench while wooden bows are started and completed all around it. Poor thing  :)
Title: Re: cool it with the Hill styles already!
Post by: 2treks on November 09, 2013, 06:12:00 PM
Did I show you guys this one yet?
New brown glass color, from Kenny.

 (http://i593.photobucket.com/albums/tt12/twotracks/P1030901_zpsa4f1e7d8.jpg) (http://s593.photobucket.com/user/twotracks/media/P1030901_zpsa4f1e7d8.jpg.html)

 (http://i593.photobucket.com/albums/tt12/twotracks/P1030902_zpsf51ebc74.jpg) (http://s593.photobucket.com/user/twotracks/media/P1030902_zpsf51ebc74.jpg.html)
Title: Re: cool it with the Hill styles already!
Post by: Roy from Pa on November 09, 2013, 07:16:00 PM
Nice, Chuck
Title: Re: cool it with the Hill styles already!
Post by: onemississipp on November 09, 2013, 07:58:00 PM
Very nice two tracks, I like the brown glass! I order some last week.
Title: Re: cool it with the Hill styles already!
Post by: jsweka on November 09, 2013, 11:04:00 PM
Now that is a bow that screams simple elegance!
Title: Re: cool it with the Hill styles already!
Post by: Roy from Pa on November 09, 2013, 11:34:00 PM
John, I thought yours looked pretty simple too:)
Title: Re: cool it with the Hill styles already!
Post by: StanM on November 10, 2013, 01:52:00 AM
Have another beer and pull the trigger! When I was younger I did some things buzzed I regretted in the morning. Buying bow making supplies would not have been one of them.

Last one I did I used a mystery hard wood for the riser taken off a pallet a buddy of mine salvaged from the port in Coos Bay. Really dense stuff made a heavy riser for a bow with very little hand shock.

 (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v215/missstanna/DSCN5166.jpg)
Title: Re: cool it with the Hill styles already!
Post by: jsweka on November 10, 2013, 08:55:00 AM
QuoteOriginally posted by Roy from Pa:
John, I thought yours looked pretty simple too:)
Yep, a simple bow made by a simpleton.   :laughing:  

Nice looking bow, Stan!