| From: legend
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| Date: 24-Mar-17 |
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Tell me what I have here.
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| From: legend
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| Date: 24-Mar-17 |
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More pictures
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| From: legend
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| Date: 24-Mar-17 |
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Emblem is gone
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| From: legend
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| Date: 24-Mar-17 |
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Serial number stamped into riser. Very small numbers
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| From: Recycled Recurves
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| Date: 24-Mar-17 |
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its a Gordons Plastic early 60's ...... should be a nice shooting bow ............ at 47# love the green glass too ..... I know there will be others who will know the model ....... Lonnie
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| From: Pdiddly
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| Date: 24-Mar-17 |
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It's a late 50's/early 60's Gordon.
What is the length measured along the belly nock to nock?
There should also be numbers stamped in the riser by the fades. Hard to see sometimes.
Riser layup looks like a King or a Knight.
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| From: mahantango
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| Date: 25-Mar-17 |
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Yup, Gordon King or Knight.
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| From: legend
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| Date: 25-Mar-17 |
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Nock to nock along the belly it measures 61 1/2. Numbers in the riser are 6591291. Thanks guys
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| From: Pdiddly
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| Date: 25-Mar-17 |
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June 1959, 1291st made and I think it is a Gordon King at that length. (62")
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| From: mangonboat
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| Date: 25-Mar-17 |
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I dont have a 1959 Gordon catalog, but the 1959 King I had was 68" Queen was 62" but typically white glass on the back. Either way, I had to sit on my hands and my wallet when I saw that one. Should be a real sweet shooter.
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| From: Pdiddly
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| Date: 25-Mar-17 |
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Thanks Mark...I was wondering if the King wasn't longer. I think the Knight was 60".
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| From: raghorn
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| Date: 25-Mar-17 |
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1959 Archer's Bible......
King- 67"
Knight- 62"
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| From: Pdiddly
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| Date: 25-Mar-17 |
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There you go...it's a Knight.
I should have known since the King I own is hanging on the same rack and is the same length as a bunch of other San Diego recurves! Duh!
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| From: Knifeguy
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| Date: 25-Mar-17 |
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Gee Pete, what bow would that be? Legend, good shooting bow, trust me, I used to have one! I felt sorry for a certain guy in Canada and sold it to him out of pity. I hate it when a grown man cries. Me not him. Lance.
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| From: Knifeguy
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| Date: 25-Mar-17 |
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Just to make it clearer, mime was a King not a Knight. Lance.
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| From: Pdiddly
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| Date: 25-Mar-17 |
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King on the right (bottom) Knight on the top (left.)
Not sure how the picture will orient itself, hence the directions in brackets.
It is a Knight.
And yes, Lance is right...that once was his King!
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| From: Pdiddly
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| Date: 25-Mar-17 |
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My King is 659758. June 1959, 758th bow.
The Knight is 759698. July 1959 698th bow
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| From: legend
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| Date: 26-Mar-17 |
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Isn't it odd that your Knight was made in July 1959 and mine was made in June 1959 but my production run is much higher? Were they making over 1200 bows a month?
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| From: Pdiddly
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| Date: 26-Mar-17 |
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I think that Gordon very well could have been putting out that many bows per month, especially if the number is all models made per month.
Root/Shakespeare's numbering was for all bows of all models made in a month and they made 5000 a month.
Howatt's numbers were sequential for each model and did not reset year by year.
In a recent post by Jim Baker it was revealed that the guys that started FASCO were finishing bows for Gordon in an adjacent facility, even while they were running their own company. That would indicate a significant level of production.
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