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Title: OK here's one I need help with
Post by: Jack Shanks on July 20, 2010, 06:19:00 AM

I got this bow in a package deal with seven others. No markings but it looks pretty neat. Has an offset handle like some Pearsons I have seen. Woven glass on the limbs, semi recurve, 60" tip to tip. Thought I took a picture of the entire bow but apparently not.
 (http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k267/bowjack/IMG_6693.jpg)
 (http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k267/bowjack/IMG_6696.jpg)
 (http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k267/bowjack/IMG_6695.jpg)
 (http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k267/bowjack/IMG_6698.jpg)
 (http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k267/bowjack/IMG_6699.jpg)

Title: Re: OK here's one I need help with
Post by: d. ward on July 20, 2010, 10:53:00 AM

I wonder if thats a Russ Wilcoxs bow bd

Title: Re: OK here's one I need help with
Post by: mahantango on July 20, 2010, 02:25:00 PM

Looks like a Blackhawk/Cravotta Bros. to me.

Title: Re: OK here's one I need help with
Post by: Grant Young on July 20, 2010, 04:00:00 PM

Kind of makes me think of an old Stemmler as well. Looks kind of cool.

Title: Re: OK here's one I need help with
Post by: chris amos on July 20, 2010, 11:26:00 PM

I was thinking Blackhawk as well. Can't wait to get to the bottom of this mystery! No markings at all?

Title: Re: OK here's one I need help with
Post by: Horney Toad on July 21, 2010, 12:24:00 AM

Looks like a 1950s bow.

Title: Re: OK here's one I need help with
Post by: d. ward on July 21, 2010, 08:01:00 AM

I think the blackhawk with the offset handle had red crossweave fiberglass.I'll double check mine today bd

Title: Re: OK here's one I need help with
Post by: Jack Shanks on July 21, 2010, 09:49:00 AM

I received information from Ron Brunges that this may be a Cliff Korn bow. Ron referenced Cliff Coe's book "44 Years Behind the Bow" as his source. It stands to reason that this could very well be as I purchased the bow from someone not far from Korn's home in Ypsilanti Michigan.

Thanks to you all.

Title: Re: OK here's one I need help with
Post by: d. ward on July 21, 2010, 11:04:00 AM

(http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii175/bowdocsarchery/crov001.jpg)   (http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii175/bowdocsarchery/crov003.jpg)

Title: Re: OK here's one I need help with
Post by: Jack Shanks on July 21, 2010, 11:37:00 AM

bowdoc,

 Looks pretty close to the same.

Title: Re: OK here's one I need help with
Post by: d. ward on July 21, 2010, 11:51:00 AM

thats a blackhawk in my pic Jack but please note the grip wraps are different and I'am pretty certin all BH grips look like mine but yours is a little to different....and BH's have the back of the handle added after grinding the riser.Yours has glass over it bd

Title: Re: OK here's one I need help with
Post by: 59Alaskan on July 21, 2010, 12:12:00 PM

Very interesting thread.  Thanks to all for sharing info and pictures.  It's fun to watch history awaken here.

Title: Re: OK here's one I need help with
Post by: 69RECURVE on July 24, 2010, 10:03:00 PM

This is a great learning place.

Title: Re: OK here's one I need help with
Post by: Rick Enos on August 18, 2010, 04:59:00 PM

I will post a couple of pics of a Blackhawk Hornet I have

 (http://i680.photobucket.com/albums/vv166/renos53/100_1929.jpg)
 (http://i680.photobucket.com/albums/vv166/renos53/100_1927.jpg)
 (http://i680.photobucket.com/albums/vv166/renos53/100_1926.jpg)

Title: Re: OK here's one I need help with
Post by: Jack Shanks on August 18, 2010, 06:29:00 PM

Rick,

 The Blackhawk and the Cliff Korn bow are very similar in design. Since I last posted on this thread I talked with a couple members of the archery club that I belong to that knew Korn. I'm quite certain the bow I have was made by him now.

Title: Re: OK here's one I need help with
Post by: Rick Enos on August 18, 2010, 06:55:00 PM

I read your post quite a while ago & have been spending a lot of time on the knife building site.I just picked this bow up a week or so ago & purchased it because of looking at yours.I need to get back with the bow guys.