Bow from my Uncle

[mullet]

Pat is right, it's a York. And what Badger said about the riser happens to almost all of those 40's bows. They will shoot but you have to take them slow. I've got 5 in the shop I'm refinishig and usually give them to the neighborhood kids. Look on it real close, usually the poundage was stamped into the wood. Most of the time just a two digit numbe.

[Knapper]

Ed,   Well done. I have also receive an old osage bow with antler tips a Choctaw man made for a friend of mines dad almost 80 years ago. Did just what you have done. It also had electrical tape holding the arrow rest on. Though I didn't sand any(didn't want to take away from its origin) I did clean as good as possible flex, made a string and shot the bow (once ). Then it was hung on the wall where it is today.
Knapper