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Would you order a bow with green glass if it was made available again?

I would rather see ANY wood uder clear glass than see brown, black, green or any color glass. Show me the wood!

Eric

Ditto what Eric said.  Yuck!

I never cared for colored glass on bows

Hell yes, that would be great. You could use a sharpie and put stripes and make an awesome camo.

My Hoyt PMH has green glass. I've always wanted to "see the wood" on all the custom bows that I've ordered.

The green limbs have grown on me.. I like them.


JDS III

Highboy, you know I want the (forest)green glass, but I want the glass strips. I voted 'yes' but I wouldn't order a bow as I make my own.
Anybody voting 'yes' should send an e-mail to Bingham.   http://www.binghamprojects.com/product.htm      and request green, tan, burgandy...whichever. Tell them we want more options. We're counting on Bingham to convince Gordon to produce at least some of these.

I want wood! Even though my ACS's are black.

Brandon voiced my thoughts exactly.  Although I wouldn't be interrested in using the old Herter's urine yellow glass.  YUCK!  

Holm-Made,  if your urine is that color, you're getting too much vitamin B....8^).

I love the colored glass...green and gray as well as black.  It's classy and classical.  I'm growing tired of so much clear glass over wood...it's okay but after awhile they all look alike.

I'd like the clear glass if it was actually clear.

Brandon, I agree on the colors and you're making some of the best looking bows I've seen.

I have a lovely old Hill style bow [ Aussie Bob Wilson ] that was made in the 80's with Bubinga riser , yew laminations and green glass - it looks brilliant - as good as any clear glass / veneer bows .

Bring back green glass

regards Jacko

I wouldn't order green glass but black glass is the best glass.  I have talked to a half dozen reputable bowyers that say black glass will give you a little more performance.  My .02.

I have an old howatt ( 1956 ) that has green glass. I love it. I've been told its called gorden glass.

I wouldn't order it, but if a fella just craved more green in his life, I wouldn't necessarily think less of him.

Seriously, if the purpose was to camoflage a bow, I'd just comment that in my experience osage, yew, and the like all work fine without any added coloration, stripes, whirls, etc.

I used to worry about bow wood being too bright. Experience has taught me not to worry...

I loved the old Bear and Root bows with the grenn glass.

May not be the fanciest or the trendiest limb material out there but in my opinion hardrock maple can't be beat and covered with a colored glass particularly black makes for a simple but classic looking bow.

If a rich dark green glass were avaiable I would go for it in a heartbeat with an osage riser with the same green glass as accent stripes, will look beautiful as the osage ages.

Hey Guys YES I WOULD I been making Hill style longbows and wish some one would make green glass and all the old Colors thay made.

Yeah, I like colored glass better than clear.I would like to see it in the darker colors instead of the washed out colors Gordon tried to introduce a few years back.I don't think that sold well at all.

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

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

I sent my emails    :)

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

This is Elmont's email address...  elmont@binghamprojects.com

Best regards,
Brandon

Sometimes the squeaky wheel gets the grease      :bigsmyl:

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.

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!   :)

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

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.