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Main Boards => The Bowyer's Bench => Topic started by: Bryan Adolphe on December 20, 2024, 08:02:19 AM
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Wanting to place an order for more glass and wondering how Bearpaw is doing now? price point for us north of the border in Canada . Thinking about trying Bearpaw again ?? Approx cost per bow clear glass by the time it lands at my door …
Gordons $70.00 Can.
Bearpaw $40.00 Can.
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Watching this.
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I haven’t played with it in years. Last time I did, I bought a large roll of it and was building bows and shipping them 10 at a time to China. The draw weights didn’t have to hit a particular draw weight. I had a 40#-55# range to work with.
I’d use it again for low budget production line bows, but not custom stuff.
Considering what you are building Bryan…. I wouldn’t use low budget glass myself.
.02 cents worth. Kirk
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Last bow I used it on came in almost 10# light, I'm not planning on using it anymore, unless it's all that's available.
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Yeah spine inconsistisy from roll to roll was big for me being I only bought inches needed instead of rolls.
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Rosewood said that BP has improved the structure of their glass and their clarity has been good, They also said Gordon’s in their opinion is perfect. I guess that should answer my question lol but its $$ when your prototyping limb ideas :o good fun comes with a price. :biglaugh:
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My last protos were done with colored glass.
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I haven’t played with it in years. Last time I did, I bought a large roll of it and was building bows and shipping them 10 at a time to China.
You need to get back at that, Kirk. America needs your help with trade balance. 🤣
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I haven’t played with it in years. Last time I did, I bought a large roll of it and was building bows and shipping them 10 at a time to China.
You need to get back at that, Kirk. America needs your help with trade balance. 🤣
I got a feeling this new administration we have coming in is going to throw a wrench in shipping stuff over seas. Shipping to China isn’t going to be a good option me thinks…. It’s a shame really… I ship quite a few bow’s overseas.
I entertained building production bows a couple times over the years, but it’s boring as hell just running machines and pumping out product. You are purchasing and handling a lot more materials, and setting on inventory that may or may not move. Import/export licensing comes into play as well as tariffs running the cost to consumers up and your cost to produce them needs to be cut to the bone…..
I was approached by Cascade years ago to build their bows, and they used Bear paw glass in all their stuff. But… once I penciled out how many bows I needed to produce per year, it just wasn’t something I wanted to pursue. I did like some of those designs they had. The Cascade golden hawk was a pretty cool bow.
No thanks…. Someone else can help balance the trade deficit. Kirk
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My guess in the new administration gonna wrench the other direction. :biglaugh:
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My guess in the new administration gonna wrench the other direction. :biglaugh:
Absolutely .... things in general are going to go sideways i'm sure...
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I feel things will be much better than the last few years.