Hey i just sold a rod butt and a few matching sections just like that one on the for sale board the other day...Had I known then, That it was a shakes...I'd have kept them..as I do not have any other shakes in my collection...Guess I really should have bought a copy of Sinclair's book back when Cabela's had em for 22 bucks....
You learn as you go!!!
Wish ya great fishing,Bill
Time to clear off your workbench in the garage and rebuild a fly rod.
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God Blesses!
A wing & a Prayer! ----*<(((><~ ~ ~ ~
Quinn
[This message has been edited by Wednesday Caster (edited 05 April 2006).]
"I envy not him that eats better meat than I do, nor him that is richer, or that wears better clothes than I do; I envy nobody but him, and him only that catches more fish than I do." Izaak Walton
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Looks like black wraps with gold or yellow signature wraps, which from the 1930's would make it an Oriskany model, as none of the H & I rods had black main wraps with gold / yellow trim in the 1940's thru the '50's; but since the reelseat looks marbelized, odds are it's an after the war rod that may have been rewrapped. The NS RW shouldered ferrules with wraps up to the ferrules only in addition to the aluminum knurled locking nut on a gray marbelized tenite spacer with molded threads is more recognized as a 1951 rod. If the full wells grip is 6" long & made out of 1/2 " corks...we have dated the rod. H & I labels were a greenish color !
Dave, thank you so much for giving me a little history of the rod. I will do my best to finish it with the quality it deserves.
I hope to feel the energy of those before me and may be blessed with skills they transmit thru the rod.
I am grateful to all for your responces
The Geezer
Excuse my spelling and grammar, I hooked Mondays and Fridays to either fish or hunt.
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