Hill Style Bow ( made some with pictures)

[coaster500]

Saaaaweeeeet Ralph...  I like it!!!

[MoeM]

Great work man- I love those straight-enders anyway and the veneers look awesome.
Maybe this is right place for a short question- how you, and you guys generally, keep it with the riser placement?
(best for me seems to put riser middle 1" below bow middle for dished, straight and slight locator style grips to get pressurepoint right and shelf to the end of upper glass belly- as close to center as possible. Limblength difference comes up to 2" which gave me the perfect advance for bottom limb. So bottom Grip area is approx 4"; suitable for most hands when using wrist turn grip)

[canopyboy]

Very nice!  I hope I can turn some out like that when I try soon...

[rmorris]

Moritz, if I understand you question correctly, I have a black mark on my 72" form at 36" and that is the center of the form. I also have a red mark 3/4" down (towards the lower limb) and that is where I center the riser for glue up. Before I glue up the bow I make another red mark on the center my riser and all my laminations so that I know everything is lined up during glue up. This 3/4" offset gives me a limb length difference of 1-1/2" opposed to your 2".  Sometime I may try a 1' offset to see how that works.

Once I have all the back laminations including the  riser ready with epoxy and laying in the form I take some tape and wrap it around the form and over the belly side of the riser where there is no epoxy and that does a good job of keeping things in place while I put epoxy on the belly laminations and get them in place.

I hope that answers your questions and thanks everyone for the kind comments.

[rmorris]

David, I am sure you will knock em out of the park! These bows are the easiest bows I have made so far. The tiller was easier than most and I feel like I learned more about tillering why making these bows because all the variables associated with curves in a limb are taken away.

[So-Mo Archer]

Those look awesome, Ralph! The veneers are beautiful as well. Great job!  

[SportHunter]

Great job on the Hill style bows Ralph. Excellent choice of woods.