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Title: Help ID Riser /Limb Tip wood question??
Post by: Larry m on December 01, 2010, 06:19:00 PM

Recently picked this up and with a little TLC it has come around to be a nice little hunting bow. 58" 55#. Would anyone know how old the bow is and the kind of wood in the riser and limb tips? From what I can find, Shakespeare stopped making bows somewhere in the mid 70's.   (http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll292/toxo-collector/archery209.jpg)   (http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll292/toxo-collector/archery247.jpg)   (http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll292/toxo-collector/archery248.jpg)  (http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll292/toxo-collector/archery249.jpg)  (http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll292/toxo-collector/archery250.jpg)  (http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll292/toxo-collector/archery251.jpg)

Title: Re: Help ID Riser /Limb Tip wood question??
Post by: Horney Toad on December 01, 2010, 10:34:00 PM

Hi Larry, This topic rang a bell. Here is a previous discussion:

 http://tradgang.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=14;t=003211#000000

Title: Re: Help ID Riser /Limb Tip wood question??
Post by: Larry m on December 01, 2010, 10:45:00 PM

Hi Mr. T
Interesting the tie in with Bear Archery and Owen Jeffrey. I was thinking that it looked like a mid to late 60's Grizzly as I was working on it. Apparently this bow was made sometime between 1976-79. The pictures on the link appears now to be deleted.
Thanks for the direction.........