I've owned a couple of 700's & the 1960's (1962-1968)BDL's were the best made I.M.H.O. From very smooth actions, to the nice wood with RKW finish & the attractive impressed Fluer-D-lis checkering pattern. In 1969, they changed the impressed checkering to a horrid ribbon pattern until the mid 1970's, when the went to a much nicer skipline cut pattern. The RKW finish however did tend to yellow the white-line spacers over time.
