Here's a couple of Hill style stringfollow longbows I just finished. I recently built one for a friend of mine who wanted a sassafras core. It shot so nice I decided to experiment a bit and make 2 more. These two have 2 lams of sassafras each with a center lam of walnut. I had some walnut laying around and always heard it was a decent core wood. I also thought it would look nice in the center.

Bow#1 - 66" black glass back with clear on the belly and a veneer of osage. 16" Curly maple riser with black leather grip. Black and white phenolic tips. 8 strand D-97 and completely silent with puffs. 44# @ 28"

Bow#2 - 64" brown glass on the back with clear on the belly and a veneer of osage. 16" wenge riser with brown leather grip. Elk antler tip overlays. 8 strand D-97 and very quiet with no silencers. 45# @ 28".

Both bows shoot very well but bow#2 is an absolute dream to shoot and noticeably faster. This bow surprised the heck out of me with speed.

       

     

     

   

   

 

 

Beautiful!  Both look really sharp, I really like the looks of the walnut cores.
-Jay

Very Classy!!  

Very,Very nice.Great job on them bad boy's--Joe

Beautiful bows!

Very nice indeed!

   

sweet looking bows. great job.

Nice  

Beautiful bows!!!  I really like the look of colored glass on the back and clear on the belly.

Good looking bows! What arrow setup you going with?

Nice work!!

Oh yes, very good.    Bue--.

Sure #2 is faster,,, it's got osage in it!

Nice bow's for sure!!!

Nice!!  

Very,very nice work!

Those are sharp...

Fellas, thanks for all the compliments. I am absolutely loving bow #2, the wenge riser. I've been shooting some 5/16 as well as 11/32 woodies all in the 43 -45# spine range with this bow. With a 125 gr. point up front they're weighing in at 455 - 470 grains. Bow #1 shoots the same arrows just not quite as quick.

These bows are really educating me with this particular stringfollow form.

dave
those are some nice lookers for sure

Really fine job!!