Now here is a great find by a friend of mine. this is a Wright McGill Granger Special, 8642, never used (still has the plastic on the grip. Unfortunatley it has lost a guide but what a great caster it is. After the guide is replaced it will be still an unfished 8642 (at least for a short while anyway…
Here are a few pics…
Leo, Ya gotta stop posting pics like that. Me drooling all over the keyboard shortcircuited my puter. Great looking rod. What a find.
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Ron,
Man you can imagine how I feel…getting something like this in the shop…I have been drooling since I opened the package yesterday. I took it out in the yard for some casting and what a powerhouse of a rod it is…
that is something else.
how’d the guy manage to snag that?
very nice!
:shock:
it’s just money man… 8) that thing would spark an ebay feeding frenzy…
What a lovely treat. Thanks so much for the photos.
Missing a guide?..Well I’d have unloaded it too! 
(yeah, RIGHT!)
Leo…Thanks for sharing some very nice pictures.
Mikey
Leo
How hard is it goihg to be matching that granger green? I have heard that it is not the easiest thing to match.
Brad
WOW!!!
You opened that a little early didn’t you?
Christmas is not for another 24 days.
I’m telling on you!
Just noticed how many wraps before steping up onto the guides-didn’t expect to be that many.
Also, the guide wrapped next to the ferrule question is answered.
Good pictures for reference.
Kaboom…matching the green isn’t really the problem, I have some of that original Granger green…the real issue is getting the color of the finished wrap to look like the others and it takes a lot of playing with the varnish and tints to get it there…I am guessing 1 to 2 hours of wraps with variations in the mixture of the varnish and the transtint to get it where I need it to be to look like the others…But who knows…I may get lucky on the first try…YEAH RIGHT!!!
Yep Quinn, they weren’t as concerned about the weight back then…they were all heavy…besides, I am not really sure how much weight would be taken out if you started a couple of wraps in front of the guide feet. this rod was a Wright McGill built Granger, and I have a couple more almost identical to this one, with the exception that they have been used where this one has not. It is absolutely amazing at the difference in the wraps on the three of the Specials. One of the others is a Goodwin Granger rather than a W&M Granger, and the wraps are still long but the rod is much darker in color too. That was due to the ammonia process that they used to achieve that color…
http://wyoming.craigslist.org/spo/232906244.html
is that the rod? or are there more of these treasures out there?
Mike
Mike, no, that one is a 9050 (9’ 5 ounce) and the one I have is an 8642 (8 1/2’, 4 1/2 oz)…but I would say that if it still has the wrapper on the cork that his price is pretty cool