Gordons has not produced Glass in the last few months supposedly to fix Problems,  they say they have some things fixed and are just getting ready to resume shipping. I hope this helps

I heard different...I heard that they told another bowyer I talked to today that they don't care about the bow buiz....its only 2% of their buizness, and don't plan on doing a thing about it.

Thats just what I was told today by another bowyer.

Heck if I know....but he wasn't too happy sounding about it...said he got 90% of his last order streaked, and they wont take it back.  He's not a happy camper.

Sorry...I corrected that above...not 90$ but 90%.

Heck, I can't even type on a computer anymore.            

I think a new glass company for the archery world would be a great business. Now is glass equipment something you can purchase or such a specialized item you would have to build it yourself?

Grinding fiberglass for a living? No thanks!!!

I'd venture to say you would need $250,000.00 to start.

QuoteOriginally posted by Troy D. Breeding:
I'd venture to say you would need $250,000.00 to start.

Roy would probably be happy to throw that in.  

QuoteOriginally posted by Troy D. Breeding:
I'd venture to say you would need $250,000.00 to start.

I'd double that at least. Serious investment for this sort of tooling. Then there are all your suppliers, workers to pay, insurance for them etc etc....I think you would need very, very deep pockets.

Mike,

You are exactly right. The $250,000.00 figure is just to get started with the basic machines. Material, labor, insurance and misc. would be well above that.

Glue mixing and layup machines, ovens, grinders and cutters do not come with a low price tag.

I remember when I was in the shaft business just the cutting, milling and grinding machines set me back well over $30,000.00 and that wasn't counting all the machine shop time required to get those machines to do what I wanted them to do.

And who can say how long it would take to get a system down that would produce the quality that we all expect! I think it would be a very long time before you actually got a return on your investment!