another hill bow stack question

[Wengerd Bowyer]

A friend of mine wants to come use my tools/shop to build a hill bow. He's never built a bow before, and i've built plenty of bows but never a hill style only recurves hybrids, and r/d longbows. So I got some measurements off his Sentman longbow but still worryed I'll miss weight. so i thought I'd throw it out to the gang.

He wants a 66" staight limbed bow with a 16" riser.

T.W. 50#-53# @ 25"

Width 1" at fades 3/8" at nock

Limb back and core will be carmelized bamboo. belly lam will be black locust (if we can find some). Clear glass back and belly

I was thinking of doing a total taper of .004 per inch. ( his sentman is .003 tpi but 64". thought i'd add more taper because of his short draw)

For total butt stack I was thinking around .490.

Like I said before I've never built a stright longbow before so any advise from you hill bowyers would be much appreciated.

[bigbob2]

I make my hill style 1 1/8'' wide at fades tapering to 1/2'' and using four lams each .001 taper, a wood stack of .400 and adding 2 x .040 glass gives me 50# @ 28'' once cleaned up if that helps. That is for a 68" NTN bow,That would give probably 58# -60# at 25'' and 68''

[Wengerd Bowyer]

Thanks for the reply. Is that a 16" riser?

[bigbob2]

Sorry that is with a 16'' riser. The lams are action 'boo .

[fujimo]

is that a straight profile Bob, or set back, or string follow?
getting lined up to build a hill!

[bigbob2]

Just a straight laid.  Most of mine will have a 1/4''-1/2'' follow immediately after de stringing and return pretty much to straight after.