Doug Easton, who began crafting his own bows and making arrows out of cedar and pine, started his company in 1922. By the time he was 17, Doug’s craftsmanship was renowned in target archery, and his arrows were regarded as the finest in the country.
In 1929, Doug moved to Los Angeles, opening Easton’s Archery Shop (above, left), where he hit the sport full force with a host of wood-arrow innovations, including the first screw-in point system that would become the world standard. In 1949, Easton produced the world’s first aluminum arrow, the 24SRT-X, changing the sport of archery forever.
Through the years, the small family shop moved and grew. Over the next decade, Doug and his team created the venerable XX75 aluminum arrow, the best-selling shaft of all time. Jim Easton came to work for his dad in 1960, and his engineering mind expanded the company to new altitudes with ski pole shafts, and higher still, with the development of the thermal shaft for the seismometer used on the Apollo moon landing. Then came a sequence of game-changing launches — aluminum baseball and softball bats, aluminum-carbon hockey sticks, new frame technology for road and mountain bikes, and durable, aluminum drumsticks.
