Put up your Favorite Damon Howatt Bow pics ! My New Coronado

[dirtguy]

I just picked up a vintage Damon Howatt Coronado recurve.  Its a late 60s/early 70s vintage from what I can tell from some old catalogs I found on line.
I want to set it up this weekend and will twist up a new string for it.  The sticking point is I cant find any listing for brace height.  If nothing else Ill start at 8 inches and tune from there, but would love to have a better idea.  The bow is AMO 60" #40 at 28 inches.

Anyone know the right brace height range for this bow?

Thanks!

[Keefer]

All my 58" Howatts  seem to like about 7-1/2" and 7- 3/4" and I have a Hunter that seems to like 73/4" so I'll say try it at 8" and see how it shoots like you said then try a lower brace as well .

[dirtguy]

Well I twisted up a 12 strand B50 string and found that, so far, 7 1/2 inches brace height works well and the bow is pretty quiet without silencers.  I tried it with some 2016s I had laying around and it shoots very nicely.  Not bad for a nearly 50 year old bow.  I now own 3 Damon Howatts and have to say they were very well made bows.

[Keefer]

I love them too!

[dirtguy]

My goodness Keefer, those are beauties!  Can you give us the run down?  Model, year, draw weight etc?  Maybe we need to start a Damon Howatt photo thread?

[HuronArcher]

I see a ‘74 Hunter on the right there. Happens to be my go to bow. Very nice group you have there👍

[Keefer]

Rudy you are 100% correct on the Hi speed to the right but I sold it to a buddy and he is hunting with it this year. He just told me how good it shoots yesterday. I have a Hunter that is on the left and it's as new with green limbs Ultra Plus and I think it's either a 62 or 63 year . The Diablo was gifted to me on my 50th birthday cause it was the same age as I back then and that was 5 years ago by my good friend and buddy Fred.
 The other two are Hi speeds and one is a Ultra plus and other isn't . One is 58" other 54" both very clean and dark in color as you see them.The heaviest weight is the Diablo which is 50# and others from 41 to 47# Here's the hunter specs.

[Keefer]

Sorry for that showing upside down wasn't like that when I sent it? Here's another 

[Keefer]

One more for now!

[dirtguy]

Thanks Keefer!  Ill post some pics tonight.  The Coronado was a lower level bow and not as pretty, but still good looking,

[Keefer]

[Keefer]

Sorry for that big picture .I tried to delete it but not sure what to do? Anyway enjoy the Brazilian rosewood!

[dirtguy]

The Coronado

[dirtguy]

The Coronado riser

[dirtguy]

The Mamba

[Gerald Denley]

Here is a 1962 Diablo...

[Gerald Denley]

Compare the design of this 1961 Monterey to what other manufacturers were producing the same year.

Howatt's were ahead of their time...

[Gerald Denley]

An early 1960 Monterey...the layup on the risers was spectacular.

[Gerald Denley]

I just picked up a vintage Damon Howatt Coronado recurve.  Its a late 60s/early 70s vintage from what I can tell from some old catalogs I found on line.
I want to set it up this weekend and will twist up a new string for it.  The sticking point is I cant find any listing for brace height.  If nothing else Ill start at 8 inches and tune from there, but would love to have a better idea.  The bow is AMO 60" #40 at 28 inches.

Anyone know the right brace height range for this bow?

Thanks!

Dirtguy

Your starting brace height would be lower.

If you let me know the serial digits on the bow I can tell you what year it was made.

Cheers!

[mangonboat]

One of the things I really like about late 1950's and 1960s Howatts is the variation, especially in limb glass. My current favorite is a knife-edge 1962 Hunter with white glass, which moved a previous owner, probably an elk hunter, to give it murals on the limbs, capturing some of the mystic of the Pacific Northwest .