The Vintage reel display captures the attention of individuals looking for those classic large capacity reels or that piece of fishing history that might become complete when attached to a cane rod of the same era. Georges, a variety of Silex reels, and occasionally the odd vintage or contemporary Longstone. This showcase regularly features Hardy Marquis, Perfects, Uniquas, St. Our Vintage reel showcase has appreciating an unbelievable rotation of product, a weekly face change which has surprised us all. As relationships build between sellers, consignees, traders and auctioneers the range and quality of the products only gets better. Acquisitions have been made via a number of different avenues.
Website | Website design: 2-minute-website.Over the last while Dave has been purchasing a number of vintage Hardy reels and accessories. The next stage if either finding or making male amd female ferrules and epoxy fixing them in position and finally drilling and pinning each ferrule when resin has set. Then finding and cutting original size lengths from a donor rod, use a vernier or a micrometer to measure the tapers at both ends so they match the sizes on their corresponding sections. The first thing to do is to discard the short sections and save the ferrules if they have any. Not un- salvageable but not far from it! Watch the rod change over the coming weeks. The 1910 10ft Hardy rod was in a very sorry state with mid section too short, top section broken, missing/incorrect ferrules, wood button worn out, brass ware split in places. Restoration of a Hardy ''The Alnwick Greenheart rod'' Have a look at these classic rods and contact me if you have any questions. The range of rods shown here are fully restored to their correct specifications as far as possible.
The Wooden Rods ranged from tiny 7 feet Greenheart brook fly rods to huge and very heavy 18+ feet Mahogany salmon rods. Many of these rods did not have the common male/female ferrule fittings that were found on cane and split cane rods they had what was commonly known as spliced joints where the tapered ends of the rod were spliced together and bound tightly with leather cord.
Some very early rods were made from woods such as Mahogany, Hickory and Elm. Greenheart was the most popular and commonly used rod making material at that time but woods like Lancewood were commonly used for top sections as they were less likely to splinter than Greenheart when under pressure. LINKS TO OTHER GOOD QUALITY FISHING RELATED SITESĮarly Wooden Rods can be found on this page and quite a few different types of wood were used in their manufacture. SOME EXAMPLES OF THE BEST FLY RODS EVER MADEįamous makers such as Allcocks, Farlows, Ogden Smiths, Hardy, Heaton, Malloch, Milwards etcĬatalogues,Antiquarian, Old and Modern books Heres a few examples of restored ABU reels. Here are some examples of restored Youngs reels.
Heres some of the rarer reels that are highly collectable. Rods, Reels and Accessories from the worlds most famous maker Salmon and Fly.ĮXAMPLES OF RESTORED HARDY FISHING TACKLE
AGE OF VINTAGE HARDY FISHING RODS PLUS
Hardy, Chapmans, B.James, Olivers, Ogden Smiths, Allcocks plus all the other top makersĪllcocks, Walker Bampton, Chapmans, James plus others. Reels of all makes, shapes and sizes bought back to their original glory! Repair and Restoration work undertaken on any reel. Repair and Restoration work undertaken on any rod Restoration and Repair of Split Cane, Whole Cane and Greenheart Rods.
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