I would love to see some of Fred's work.

Black magic. The best bow ever made.

Those are sweet

Fred of all your designs which would you say is the best overall for hunting?

Love that maple recurve....

I have a Cascade Brush Hawk, but am not sure whether it was made by Fred or outsourced to Checkmate.

I have only seen a few of Fred's bow's and none in person. The finish work is impressive.

Those are real beauties Fred

Deno

Seneca_Archer Chek-Mate never made Fred Anderson's bows. They built Steve Gorr's bows at a point in time.

I’ve come very close to buying that maple riser bow you posted pics of.

The weight is just a little too high.

I will post a pictures of a couple of bows Fred made when he was a young man!

Fred’s bows were Cascade Mountain.

Cascade Archery was a different outfit and many of those bows were made by Chek- Mate.

FDP/Pdiddly2, Thanks for the clarification, bought the bow used, not familiar with its history.

My apologies to jegs.mi didn't intend to sidetrack your post.

SA

Here's a pair of FASCO Sonic's that Fred made in the 60's!

One is a Sonic and the other is a Super Sonic and they were made the same day, only three numbers apart. I bought them two years apart so pure chance they were made the same day.

They were 57" bows and very popular...I found both of them to be quiet and fast.

They have nice thumb rests made from a separate piece of wood...this is the Super Sonic with wood overlays on the belly of the riser.

Fred loves to rove and I like to rove with the Sonic!

Here are the specs...10597 and 10599!

Here's one of the two dozen or so "Mojos" that Fred sent out into the world--a 47# sweetie that was named "Rattler;" his own hunting bow.

And then there was this one back around the late 60's...a FASCO Model 55, which Frisky tipped me off to when it came up on eBay late one night. He actually confessed that it's his favorite bow riser ever.

L-r, Diamondback, Rover Special and Diamondback.

Tips, in the same order. Doesn't get any better than that!

Very nice indeed.

One of my all time favorite bows from Fred was his limited run Sasquatch. A beautiful bow that shot as good as it looked.

I also owned two of Fred's Skookum bows. Works of art from the tips to the handle.

Ended up selling my bows made by Fred when I could no longer handle the weight.

I have two of Fred’s bows: a Skookum and a Hyak.

John, Which is the skookum in the picture?

Jed, the Skookum has the light brown handle wrap. The Hyak is a deflex/reflex style bow.

Did he make the Anderson broadhead as well?

Homey Fred is the guy up the thread with the handle skookum. He will answer any question you have.

That hyak is very nice!

If Fred is as gifted as a bowyer as he is as a writer , his bows must be witty , fast and full of wisdom .

If I could own one bow it would be one of Fred’s …

I genuinely admire and respect the man

Nice work on those tip overlays.

Ben, they are all of that and more. :o)

Fred made some of the nicest longbows ever sold .

John isn't the Skookum a deflex/reflex bow also?

The Skookum is slightly deflex/reflex.

Fred Anderson’s “Hyak” in profile

John, I'm jealous that is a nice bow.

Here are the couple I have left. I had a couple more Skookums but sold them after I hurt my shoulder. Too much weight

The black and white Skookum is 40# and this one is 47#

They don’t get any better than Fred’s bows.

A number of things Fred did to his bows that lots of others don't do that make a difference.

Beautiful bows, SO NOW ""WHO "" was Fred Anderson?? When did he start building bows , what if any companies did he work for, did he ever serve in uniform ??? Just nice to know information to put together with the above bows.

Alpine by Fred Anderson….what a bow.

Fred Anderson was one of the master bowyers of his time. He worked Making Fasco bows in California back in the 60's then started Cascade mountain archery in the early 80's. He made custom longbows and recurves, but mostly longbows. His number one bow was the Skookum. He's probably about 80 years old now and retired for some time. Look up a couple books,, "The Traditional Way and Toxicated" that he wrote.

Dnovo, While Fred May be best known for his Skookum I’m not sure he would agree that it was his number one bow. He was innovative and continues to create new designs after the Skookum. His Hyak was an excellent bow and, as I mentioned above, offerings like his Sasquatch were top notch.

Fred was the second poster on this thread and showed two photos of his bows. Hopefully he will stop back here soon.

Here's the brochure for the broadheads. Somewhere I have 2 of them.

I'll find them when I'm looking for something else. That's how that works.

Another photo of Fred’s “eye candy “ skookum and Hyak.

Some years back, by a stroke of dumb luck, I stumbled across this bow. Back then I thought my 58" recurve was long for a hunting bow and not sure I'd like a "long" 60"er.

And the poundage was little on the "light side" for what I was using back then. I had heard of this Anderson fella and if I ended up liking the bow, it could be my "old man" bow

When I got home it didn't take a whole lot of arrows to start liking her.

This bow, like the longbows shown above, have some real nice work in the tips.

Fast forward a few decades and my how tastes change. That "long" 60"er worked out alright for hunting, as a mater of fact I've come to like the longer bows, longbow and recurve. I may be wrong but I believe he had a longer 66" recurve back then, ?.ridgerunner?? maybe. Wish I could find one of those in a poundage I use these days. I can't imagine a nicer shooter than this bow, but I'd like to find that out "the hard way". Hahaha

Steve

As a lot of folks say, the pictures don't do justice....especially when it's someone like me taking the pictures.

Steve

Here’s a Hyak 2 pc. Fred made for himself 64” with rawhide on riser like Saxton Pope bow. I bought in 2012. Fred was 85 years old in March 2022 56#@28” Text 810-624-4597 for more information.

Here’s a Hyak 2 pc. Fred made for himself 64” with rawhide on riser like Saxton Pope bow. I bought in 2012. Fred was 85 years old in March 2022 56#@28” Text 810-624-4597 for more information.

Here are a few more photos of Skookum's Mojo recurve. One day, it arrived, announced, sent from Maine by Crookedstix, as an expensive gift for teaching him all about bowhunting. Shortly afterward, he and a Canadian thug showed up and stole it from me! It was a nice shooting bow, with snakeskins glued on with Elmer's School Glue. I didn't miss the bow as soon after the theft occurred, I got my hands on a Bear TD and the rest, as they say, is history!

Joe

I had no idea he made recurves.

I meant to say the bow arrived "unannounced" as Crookedstix sent it without my permission. Naturally, I thought it was mine. Then, he swiped it from me.

Joe

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