if you wanna know about 'the book', pm me.

Just secured my copy, thanks Mudd for the info!!!

Patrick

I hope everyone has a copy of Don Carson's
"Early Adventures witH Howard Hill " ... now that is a fine book that encompasses everything about archery that I love ... long longbows , hunting , roving ... having fun
I'm pretty sure Ted at Raptor stocks it .

A Great book !

A little birdie told me that something of the "Howard Hill" style will be ready to ship next week...  

My two Hill style bows by John Lee. "Maggie" and "Blue Duck"



 

sweet !

Man are those just dandy looking Ron !

Do they have a touch of string follow a la' Miller/Schulz ?

Yes, one is an osage with bamboo, no glass and the other is bamboo core with glass belly and fiber back. You'll notice that the grips are narrow and not much of a shelf. John builds them like many of Howards early bows that he has in his collection.

Here's John and I the day he brought the Maggie bow to my house.

 

well, the bears won this round, sneaky buggers!  but I'll be back this fall...

meanwhile, nothing much better than roving/stumpshooting in the high country, seeing deer, antelope, elk, and a wolf....oh, and seeing a straight stick accented against a great backdrop...



this is my hunting backyard,  spend alot of time with the longbow out here....looking forward to going back this fall

My lord, I need to live in the mountains!  What a place to carry a longbow and hunt critters.  Just breathtaking!

Nate, I can smell the sage and the pines just by looking at that photo. Excellent!

Still a boatload of snow up in those thar mountains, eh?

Pretty country. Looks about like where I go hunting.

Nate, That white glass really looks good, and it really doesn't stand out that much in that back drop. I bet you couldn't pick it out in a grove of Aspens

BTW the more I shoot my new SUNSET HILL the less I want to shoot my other bows.

My "GO TO" bow for sure!

... i want a play date in Nate's backyard .....

Ben,  
Rik and I are awaitin' for ya....but you must bring a bevy of your Hill sweethearts with you...

that white glass bow was almost the undoing of a nice bear a few weeks back...he came within 10 yards of me and wasn't spooked.....we'll see how white glass does this fall.  I'm anxious for a special story about that bow...there's some mojo behind it and we'll see how the fall season pans out.

inbetween times shooting and roving,  I managed to read "Sherwood" completely through...all 500+ pages, and got further into "White Company"....good reading for sure!

Nate ... who wrote " Sherwood " ...?

Pm sent

His backyard is awesome looking!

Ahh -- second page again!

I want to move back west again seeing Nate's pictures...  I'm learning to appreciate the eastern forests, but they'll never compare to the mountains and high desserts out west.

Ok here is a topic I'd like to discuss, what , on average is the HH bow produced by Craig Ekin cut off center, what are your shelves measured at as far as cut not to center.  are the individual bows offered cut to different centers based on bow material? Bamboo vs elm for instance?  Bow length?  Nate what do you cut yours to and why?

If cutting a bow to center is easier in theory to tune and less critical to arrow spine for matching, why dont longbows get cut closer to center?

Patrick

thanks

With older selfbows the shelf was not cut into the bow. (ex: an english longbow)  If you look at some of Howard Hill's personal bow (I am going by pictures, never handled one) they do not have alot of shelf.  I think that sticking to the true Hill way of building the bow may be part of it.  My Sunset Hill that I just got is about 3/16.  It may also have to do with the strength in the handle.  Cutting a bow in past center takes stronger materials.  Just thoughts, lots of bowyers on the site will have better answers.

Craig's bows at Howard Hill Archery are cut approx 1/8" from center then the rest/sideplate is attached. My 4 Hills with the leather rest/sideplate measure approx 3/16 from center.