Thank you, RS1.

I will do that. I have not visited that forum in a couple of years. Will see if my username and password will still work.

It is a beautiful rod, especially after Ken and Dennis at Conranch Hackle restored it to pristine condition.

They used red silk wraps, Mike McCoy Snake Guides and agate stripper and new Super Z ferrules. The original guides were tiny ones meant for silk lines.

The butt section had a bad alligator-skin finish from someone's botched brushed on varnish job. Some wraps were replaced with non-matching red non-silk thread. The original inscriptions were kept intact and the 51 intermediate wraps were meticulously removed and replaced.

A beautiful work of art. If you are in need of a cane rod restoration, give Ken and Dennis at Conranch Hackle a call. They will ask you to send them the rod and then individually evaluate it to see if it can be restored and the approximate cost.

This P-M restoration was worth every dollar to me; otherwise, the rod would probably languish in its sock on the back of my den room door for the rest of its life. Now it can be fished again!

Cheers,

Richard Komar in Plano TX