Would you order green glass if it was available?

[Cody Roiter]

The way I see it is that they still make black, white and brown way not the other great colors.
Cody

[fowlarcher]

44% of voters like the idea of more options in colored 'E' glass. If all of us sent an e-mail to Gordon and Bingham etc. (distributors) we have a chance of getting at least a run of some other colors. That's 26 e-mails (if every one of us send one), enough to get them thinking about it. I sent one to both, but only one e-mail is easily forgotten.

 http://www.binghamprojects.com/product.htm

 http://www.gordoncomposites.com/contact.htm

[72highboy]

I sent my emails    

[Brandon Stahl]

I also just sent an email to Elmont regarding my interest in this.  

This is Elmont's email address...  [email protected]

Best regards,
Brandon

[72highboy]

Sometimes the squeaky wheel gets the grease      

I promptly received an email back from Mr. Don Forrest at Gordon's and seems that if the market would bear more colors they would gladly make them.  Mr. Forrest did reiterate the point that for the factory to do it they need to make approx. 1000 pieces of any particular color.

[Curveman]

I passed on some better performing limbs for my recurve because they couldn't come with yew veneers. I was heartbroken! Now I am primarily shooting a glassless longbow that's a bit of a "Plain Jane" even-but it's wood!  

[Brandon Stahl]

I figured that the minimum run would probably be at least 1,000.  That's a lot of glass and a pretty big purchase for just a few guys.

I remember talking to Elmont years back (late 90's) and at that time he had just sold the last of the green glass he had.  

He mentioned then that it wasn't a very popular color and that he had the stuff for a long time before he was able to sell all of it.  I think he was glad to have gotten rid of it all the first time.

It's going to take a lot of us being interested to make this worth their while.

I don't know what the wholesale cost would be but let's say it's $6.00 a strip.  That'd be a $6,000 purchase plus freight (probably another $300 or $400?).

I currently only build about 30 bows per year with a majority of them using clear glass.  I hope to be up to 50 to 70 per year soon but that would still only be 100 to 150 strips of glass per year, with most of the bows still utilizing clear glass.  

As I mentioned before, if green was made available again, I would be interested in initially purchasing 20 to 30 strips myself.  Granted that 30 strips of a single color is quite a bit for one guy, but it's not anywhere near the 1,000 piece minimum.  

I'm really hoping that we'll see enough interest in this that they'll give it a go and run a batch of it.

Brandon

[fowlarcher]

Right. This is on a scale a few bowmakers aren't going to be able to handle. It is up to the suppliers.
 
Seems like it wouldn't be so difficult to throw in a different color pigment in a batch of glass, but the distributors would have to have it on hand.

The sale of green etc. glass isn't going to boost sales, it would only offset from clear, black, brown. So if the suppliers are satisfied with the way things are it's same old, same old for us.