Wanna cry with me? Need ideas.

[Snakeeater]

Don't forget to salvage that nice feather rest.

[artifaker1]

Is that tears I see in the pictures? Just sand those limbs off and get some zebra wood and clear glass and glue on some new ones. easier said than done I guess. I have a 66" tamerlane that was 45@28 that is in the same condition. It should be possible to re-limb them.

[Earl E. Nov...mber]

Heck you can even send me the key fob..

[4runr]

Dan decided he wanted no part of this bow hanging around to remind him of his screw up.

It wasn't stored in the attic, it was in the basement. It wasn't his Grandpa's it was his father-in-law's.

So, now that we got all the facts straight, here's what we're gonna do. He gave the bow to me as is. I would like input from all you collectors as to what to do with it to make use of such a beautiful peice of Bear history. I'll listen to all your ideas and make a decision, then post pics of the results. I know alot of ideas have already been proposed, but I'd like more.

[Al H]

I agree with Bjorn.  A couple of more would make a great stool.  

Al

[kurtbel5]

Mad Dog Archery relimb her

[NumPls]

I agree with Kurt - resurrect it with new limbs. Mad Dog may be able to come close to matching the original with clear glass and zebrawood lams. Maybe you can get a set of dry-transfers, too, so that it would be "better-than-new", even shootable (with out having to worry about the problems that I have heard regarding the original limbs)!

Ray

[TimberlineX]

Recurve bow limbs seem pretty quirky things. They are either made right and they last. Or they aren’t made right or they are ABUSED and they don’t last. There’s really not much in between those two conditions.

Here’s another case in point – an otherwise sparkling 1966 Bear Super Magnum 48 with a slightly delaminated lower limb on the belly side of the curve. Who knows how or why it happened. But it happened. To string this bow now is to invite a major blowup.


   


   


Can it be repaired? Beats me. Not my area of expertise. I sort of doubt it, though. Or at least I don’t know that I would ever fully trust that lower limb again.

The only good news, I suppose, is that the crack on this particular bow is barely noticeable. In a display-only collection of classy Bear bows, this one would still be a standout.

Recurve limbs are quirky.

Would you try to get this Super Magnum 48 repaired? Or what are your thoughts on this bow?

[hormoan]

That was a beauty, Kenny

 

Make a man cry, hopefully you can resurrect it  

[joeo]

i have a friend that bought a custom bow he shot in the backyard , unfortunatly him and his roomate parked in the backyard ,he laid his bow down in the grass to fetch arrows , his roomate came driving  around the corner from work and reduced it to firewood

[TRAP]

Kenny, I may have the second leg of your stool headed my way as we speak.  

I took a chance on a KSD with an attractive BIN price.  We'll see.  If it's a crapper, I'll send it to Kurt and let him make a bow rack out of it.

Trap

[Cody Roiter]

Kenny, Maybe u could find a old Bear bow the same way and make a Take Down from it.. I have all ways wanted to try that..

Cody

[Wade Phillips]

Kenny - Some of the old timers used discarded bows for Bow Art... floor lamps, table lamps, door handles, book racks, etc.

This is Archery Hall of Fame Inductee, Floyd Eccleston's personal floor lamp from his shop floor... Floyd made this lamp from three 1963 Kodiak Magnums and made several others from bows that he rescued from Bear Archery's discards. These Magnums have survived the past 46 years with dignity because Floyd was far sighted enough not to permit their partial or total destruction, and to create a useful purpose for them to survive intact.

A 66" Kodiak Special Deluxe is shown for length comparison to Floyd's lamp; 66" bows would make a nice useful tall floor lamp.

Lots of possibilities for your broken 66" Kodiak Special Deluxe to have a long and useful life as something other than a bow to shoot or display on a rack.

Hey, rumor has it that some old discarded longbows are even being used today as tomato stakes...

 

[Rick P]

I like the lamp allot better! ;^)

Unfortunately even I have to admit this one is a lamp or bow rack. Still makes me sick, man a 67KSD would look awsome with my other 67's