I’m getting ready to restore my father’s old Wright Mcgill eagle claw fiberglass rod. I can get everything I need from H&H but I can’t seem to find a rather unique piece for the rod. It is the round metal eagle claw logo that was pressed into the cork handle. Does anyone have an idea where I might find such a thing? Any help would be great.
Harebear
Greetings Harebear,
http://www.eagleclaw.com/ may be a good place to start. If they have the metal logo, you’re in luck, if not, they may be able to direct you to someone who collects and perhaps sells such things. Good luck !
Cheers,
MontanaMoose
Greetings Harebear,
http://www.eagleclaw.com/ may be a good place to start. If they have the metal logo, you’re in luck, if not, they may be able to direct you to someone who collects and perhaps sells such things. Good luck !
Cheers,
MontanaMoose
Rick has some in stock…
I think there is 1 on an old casting rod in my storage building.I will check on it later this evening or in the morning.If it is there I will send it to you.
that would be awesome. Just let me know if you find one. Thanks for looking
Harebear
I found the old rod but the emblem is not on it,sorry for the false hope.Good luck in finding one as I can only imagine how much this little project means to you.
I’d better glue that emblem on pretty good once I get it, seems they fall off alot! LOL Thanks anyway for thinkin about me.
Harebear
Thanks Denver Dave. Rick is the man! I have the emblem on the way. He was a wealth of useful knowledge on glass rods, I may indeed buy the items to build a glass rod from Rick for myself, if I like the way this current one I’m working on casts.
No Problem HB, glad it worked out for you…
Rick has some “New/Old” Phillipson Glass Blanks that are pretty cool, thought about doing some myself…
Phillipson made all the Glass Blanks for Orvis and HL Leonard ( to name a few ) in the 50’s and 60’s and in two or three types of Glass, so there is some great history there…