Bear Panda Question...Added Some Before Pics...

[wooddamon1]

Greetings, gentlemen. I have a Bear Panda I'm wanting to restore for one of my daughters, but it's missing any sort of arrow shelf. It looks like someone ground on it or scraped off whatever was there originally.

If somebody could tell me what to use or show me pics of an original set up for this I'd greatly appreciate it. I'm assuming it had some sort of shelf/rest deal on it to begin with...thanks in advance!

[raghorn]

Which year? Color, length,etc.....picture?
The 1959 had a piece of plastic pushed under the leather grip for a shelf. It could be moved for RH or LH.

[wooddamon1]

raghorn, it has red glass and I believe it is 58". I will get a picture or two up soon, it's sitting at my house across town at the present.

It does look like someone may have glued a plastic wedge or something in place and then scraped it off later...

[wadde]

If it had the push thru plastic shelf those were commonly boke off. You could remove it and replace with a dowel or use a stick on brush rest.

[Hobow]

Here is a link to probably the most helpful Panda thread here.

 http://tradgang.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=14;t=003021

At the bottom of page 3 are pictures of my Panda showing the shelf.  I thought that it was a '60 but have been told '59 and '61 as well.  It does match my '59 Grizzly perfectly though.

http://tradgang.com/noncgi/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=14;t=005943;p=3

[wooddamon1]

Thank you very much guys, you're the best! Now to figure out what to use after I get her cleaned up...

Maybe a vinyl screw cut length-wise and shaped to resemble that rest? A dowel as wadde suggests shaped like the rests some guys use on self bows? Hmmm, I will definitely post pics when I get the time to work on it.

Hobow, that pic was exactly what I needed.

[wooddamon1]

Thought I'd add a couple pics and see if anyone knows the year on this,'59 maybe? Haven't started working on it yet, but here's what I'm dealing with. I'll be using some info from the 101 thread when I do get crackin'...


 

 

 

[wadde]

The glass color and length are correct for 59. It would have had a small plastic rest that slid into the top of the leather wrapped grip and created a small shooting shelf.

[raghorn]

Here is what it looks like from the 1959 catalog

[wooddamon1]

Cool, a '59! Thanks guys!

[damascusdave]

I shoot mine off my hand. Papa Bear shot all his bows off his hand. He did well that way.

DDave