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"Vintage Style" Woven glass is on the Back of the glass version. The belly is flat.
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Shooting the Wesley,, Just sold a great longbow to order a new Hill,, Merry Christmas!!,, LOL
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No the glass he makes is for the back of the bow.They also used gasket material as well. Yes very involved and a art form only a few know the whole process these days and only one man making them this way David Miller.
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Hopefully by this time next year I will be shooting a Sunset Hill built by Nate and an Expedition made by David Miller.
I'm actually hoping the Sunset will make it here before our season ends.
Thanks for the beautiful photos!!!
Merry Christmas and God bless,Mudd
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Thanks guys. Had that glass thing backwards.
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That's a lot to be looking forward to next season. The only trouble I find with getting two bows in one year is I can never decide which one to take hunting!
I'm thinking about a CC/CV from Dave Miller too. Given that Dave is the only guy making bows using this type of construction it may well become a 'lost art' in the future...... Also, they look awesome.
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It always looks like Howard's bows had more bend in the limbs than a lot of the bows in the pics of today. I should get my wife to take pictures of my bows at that angle and see how much difference there is.
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Ok, I missed something or just plain need more edumacation -- what makes it a CC/CV? How is a concave/convex longbow defined? I love the way it looks, I just want to understand it a little better.
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canopyboy, basically the bamboo is not steamed and flattened to make flat laminations before it is used in the bow, hence the cross section is arched or concave on one side and convex on the other. Think of the cross section view of a metal measuring tape--it's that kind of shape. Dave showed me a cut off piece of a limb and it just had the natural curvature of the bamboo. The belly is ground flat but the back of the bow is still rounded a bit and that's why the woven type glass has to be used. In earlier days when Hill was making them that way the linear, unidirectional glass would raise along the edges of the limbs. That problem can be seen in some of the photos of old bows Bob Burton shows in his book. Adcock started doing something sort of similar in his ACS design but only on the last several inches of the limb and of course did it with the bow form rather than the natural curve of bamboo.
Hope this helps picture it in your mind. Of course I'm talking about the glassed version of the cc/cv bow--the one Dave calls the Expedition.
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A question to anyone who has shot Millers all bamboo,How much differance is there in the shooting Qualities between these and say a regular HH, as to performance shock etc,etc.I was looking at Daves website and man those all bamboo bows look nice. Swampthing,that bow of yours is to die for,Man that is nice!
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I love my Miller split bamboo. LOVE, LOVE, LOVE!!! Did I say that I love it? I have a 66" 45#@28" and I wish I could order a 50#. I haven't taken it hunting, it's high gloss and I am careful with it. I may put some wax on it and hunt it next yr. It shoots so smooth and quiet. Perfect fit and finish. Grip is fantastic. Its a real treat every time I take it out. I will be shooting league this winter with it. It is noticeably different than any standard Hill style. I like having Hill bows of different makes and styles, and this one is awesome. It is a little slower than glass bows, but not by much. With a Dacron string and no glass 10 fps I think is what the video system indicated. Not significant. I was so pleAsed to own a piece of history, and shoot it!
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Matt,thats exactly the kind of response I was afraid of !LOL.This is the bow I remember 50 years ago my dads friend had that taught me to shoot with,I to loved it.Thanks my friend.
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