Looks like yours also has a butcher block i beam.

DDave

So an even dozen out of 999 bows accounted for.

DDave

I finally got around to reading this entire thread and found it very entertaining and interesting...and informative.  Here are some serial numbers from 4 bows on my rack:

1959, 60", 47#, BG611 (copper coin and purple heart window)

1959, 64", 55#, DB732 (copper coin and purple heart window)

1960, 60", 49#, 18ZX4? (aluminum coin, rosewood window)

1960, 64", 41#, DD327 (copper coin, rosewood window)

DoubleD 327, hm. I really think a guy named DamascusDave ought to have that bow.

Only thing is I would suspect you would want both my RH Kodiaks in trade.

Please do not tease us like this. I will send you my right arm and you post some pics please.

DDave

I just checked my phone and it would make so much sense for me to start collecting DD bows since DDave is DD283. All I would have to do is collect all of the Chev engine size number bows. Actually, that would be ridiculous, I would only collect the Chevy V8 number bows.

So 265, 283, 301,302,327,350,396,400,427,454. Did I miss anything? I should be able to easily get those ones for right around 10 grand.

Lon, thanks so much for starting me on a life long quest which will leave me financially broken, yet with a strangely satisfied smile.    

DDave

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Looks like yours also has a butcher block i beam.

DDave

DD... I'm going to post a better pic of sight window, I didnt think it was one...

Nope, just a solid rosewood from the look of it. Still very nice grain and super nice looking.

That looks very much like an original featherrest as well. I thought that mine were in great shape, yours is even better.

Once again thanks for some great pics.

DDave

OK, here ya go DDave...a 1960 Kodiak made just for you...

   

 

DamascusDave...you forgot the mighty dual quad 409!  Chevrolet's top dog from 1961 to 1965.  A 425hp 409 would rank right up there with a mint 1959 or 1960 Kodiak.  Chevy only the tri-poer 348 as their powerhouse these years!

How could I forget the mighty 409; even a song about it, and I tend to try to name my bows after songs.

A friend of mine was very badly injured in the late sixties in a wreck driving, as I recall, an Impala, with a 409. I have no idea how he and his passenger survived, the only straight and intact piece left on the whole car was a bit of the roof on the passenger side.

DDave

Lon, there are those that would have us believe that screw in the riser would make the bow practically useless. I am guessing that the screw is for attaching a Bear quiver, which, btw the lady who I bought the Twins from may very well still have a very good example of.

It seems to me that the 64 inchers came with the rug rest rather than the featherrest.

At my 30 inch draw that lil sweetheart would be right at 45 pounds.

Thanks for posting a pic, those rosewood risers are just the best eye candy.

DDave

DDave,
Thanks I do have the original rest and it was natural barred also, but I gently removed it and installed a finely crafted rest made by Trap. I really like how all of his rest shoot and look! AAA+ quality.

QuoteOriginally posted by damascusdave:
Nope, just a solid rosewood from the look of it. Still very nice grain and super nice looking.

That looks very much like an original featherrest as well. I thought that mine were in great shape, yours is even better.

Once again thanks for some great pics.

DDave

Those Trap rests are just gorgeous. Guess I really ought to order up a few.

DDave

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Has anyone seen a 56" like this before with the red and white fiberglass ovetlays and with a Ser.# starting with DB?  If so, any idea of how many were made?
Thanks!
Brian Tessmann

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Brian

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Brian

Don't give up yet.  On your photobucket page, go to the photo you want copied, scroll down to the last line or the "IMG CODE" and click.  It will say "copied".  Then back to tradgang and click "Paste" in your message.

photo should appear...but notice I said "should"

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I now officially give up!
Brian

Brian,

Let me see if I can help:

.....your PB doesn't seem to automatically copy the images....you have to copy them, put your cursor on the section at the bottom and copy, then paste them in the reply.  But first....resize them.....they will get removed because they are way too big.  No more than 600 pixels wide.

I started to copy them in to this post, but noticed how large they are.....then deleted them.

Do what I said above and it will work.

1960 Kodiaks...which ones are the rarest?   Wood combinations, lengths, coin...etc.