When did takedown bows come into play

[Troy Breeding]

This may have been covered before. Just havn't seen it.

When did the takedown bows start to show up.

The first one I remeber seeing was a Ben Pearson recurve if I remeber right, that had a metal finger joint at the shelf.

As for three piece the first one I saw was the Bear that had solid fiberglass limbs that slid into a clip on the ends of the riser. It was a basic low end bow, but for me it made perfect since.

Troy

[coaster500]

Troy try posting on the trad history forum, maybe it will get a hit  

Kind of curious myself

[Paul Shirek]

I think Bob Lee developed one of the first modern 3 piece take-down bows...

[Grey Taylor]

I think the carriage bow, which was a take down longbow, was sometime in the 1800's.

Guy

[Gen273]

The first production (modern) take down was a Bob Lee.

[zipper bowss]

Are we sure it was not a Root?
Bill

[John Nail]

Kind of a trick question Troy. Fred Anderson made a bow out of pick handles and a piece of pipe when he was a kid, but Ernie Root's were the first commercial ones I remember.
I believe Frank Eicholtz made a center shot, takedown longbow in the '30s, again, I don't know if he sold them commercially

[Matt Green]

Bob Lee is the credite with the first take down recurve - story goes he needed it to make travel easy. there's some videos on the Bob Lee site - i think he talks about this in one of them. He's a pioneer for sure - doesn't quite get the credit he deserves in my opinion.
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[Troy Breeding]

Looks like the debate goes on.    

Just wondered when they came in to use. For the first 5-6 years of my hunting life I ever seen one. I always thought it would be nice to have a bow that would require less room in travel.

The next thing I knew it seemed like they were popping up everywhere.

Later, when I started building my own TD bows I thought it would be great to have a TD longbow.

Again, the next thing I knew they too were everywhere.

It was like, once one was out everybody (bowyer wise) had one.

Troy

[Earl E. Nov...mber]

Nels Grumley applied for a patent on a take down bow in 1945.
 
 http://tradgang.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=14;t=005142#000000

Not sure how old Bob is but that would have him pushing 90+ pretty hard to have one before that..

However as Grey stated, they had carriage bows in the 1800's

They've been with us a long time.. Got popular in the 70's or a tad before.

[JParanee]

Bob Lee

[YORNOC]

Well, I can only speak of when they came into play for ME.
The first time I shipped a 66" one piece to Alberta. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$!

 Take down time!