1st Hill off the new form

[Dmaxshawn]

Another Awesome bow from Brad!!!

Shawn

[jsweka]

Looks great!  You just can't beat a well made simple Hill style longbow.

[joekeith]

Another beauty Brad.    You do some awesome work.      

[kennym]

Nice one Brad!!                    

But we expect that from ya!! LOL


How you likin her,should be a nice shooter!

[White Oak]

Another beauty Brad. I've been waiting to see this one.      

[Roy from Pa]

Very sharp bow.

[Razorbak]

Brad
that is the nicest hill style I have ever seen....man what I would do to get a lefty version of that

[Wannabe1]

Absolutely beautiful bow. But, can you explain the need to make the lower limb 1" shorter than the top. PM if you want.      

[flint kemper]

Brad, I will be your field tester? Very nice looking bow by the way. Flint

[Dave Bowers]

You did i fine job sir  

[bjansen]

Thanks gentlemen.  

Its a quiet bow and it shoots better than I thought it would.  The very first glass bow I made was a straight longbow and I had a hard time getting the shock out of it.  Thin tips and a trapped back really help the cause and I cannot really tell that this bow has much shock at all. I put some coyote silencers on it and a FF string and I think those two items help as well.

The one inch lower bottom limbs allows for some positive tiller built in the bow (rather than making the top limb thinner or sanding the glass to achieve the same amount of positive tiller).  When I was building this bow I took some notes from a friends 66" Howard Hill and basically built it to the same specs...worked well.

[DEATHMASTER]

It looks like it should be a nice shooter.
Let us know after playing a little.

[Kevin L.]

Beautiful stick! I really like the colors with the cedar.

[Diamondback59]

looks real nice brad  how s it do on the crono brock

[frank bullitt]

Want to bring this back to the front! There is Howard Hill thread on PowWow, and this bow, and Brad, need to be featured!

We have great, crafts-People here that never get exposure to the folks who never stray from the main!

Please, someone post this over......there!

Let's turn some Heads  

[scottm]

Beautiful bow Brad!

[matts2]

That is a beauty.  Love that style.  Thats what I am wanting to do soon.  

I am just down the road from you.  Do you shoot indoor anywhere?

Matt

[Dave Bowers]

A real beauty you got there  

[rimes]

That looks real nice. Would you mind telling me, did you use three thin strips of bamboo for the core or are my eyes deceiving me? I'm still quite new to trad archery and have my sights set on building a laminated longbow sometime in the future. Thanks

Kris

[bjansen]

Rimes,

Yes I used 3 core lams of actionboo and 2 lams of cedar for the veneers.