Paddy Galore! Posted July 10, 2019 Report Share Posted July 10, 2019 I thought it was a bloody spear! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oowee Posted July 10, 2019 Report Share Posted July 10, 2019 2 hours ago, ditchman said: nooooo you wally when you have caught a fish...you need 2 hands to hold it and unhook it.....so as not to tangle your rod and line up in the foliage ...you jab it in the ground...and hey presto...both hands free .. Live and learn every day on these threads. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchman Posted July 10, 2019 Author Report Share Posted July 10, 2019 22 minutes ago, Paddy Galore! said: I thought it was a bloody spear! and Tightchoke thought it was a bayonet.........................gord save us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchman Posted July 11, 2019 Author Report Share Posted July 11, 2019 On 10/07/2019 at 16:56, ditchman said: anyone want a go at i dentifing the maker of this rod ? i belive the so called patent number is 6516 went onto another "purist" fly fishing web site.........and the owner of the site forwarded me details after he had contacted the Patents office.......... the fitting of the rod were made by Allcocks of Redditch...and supplied to the upmarket trade makers who then turned it into an expensive rod of the time......the little eyelets on the furrells were a hang back to earlier times when the rods were whipped together at the beginning of the season and left like that until fishing finished.......... the Patent number.........ran from 1885 to 1899.......so the rod is from that time.............the owner of the site dosnt know of any other rod that has beem stamped engraved with feathers....(and he has over 150 from that time in his collection) ..as to say it is very very unusual , and he is doing further research on engraved rods ..to try and track down the maker............. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paddy Galore! Posted July 12, 2019 Report Share Posted July 12, 2019 On 10/07/2019 at 20:58, ditchman said: and Tightchoke thought it was a bayonet.........................gord save us. thought you'd taken up spear fishing ditchie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchman Posted July 12, 2019 Author Report Share Posted July 12, 2019 8 minutes ago, Paddy Galore! said: thought you'd taken up spear fishing ditchie what do you think i am ...."a cross between Chaka Zulu and Jaques Cousteux".............. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walker570 Posted July 12, 2019 Report Share Posted July 12, 2019 (edited) The leather covering on the grip facinated me. I have handled a few old rods both salmon and trout but never seen anything like that. Has to be a custom rod maker but there were a fair few back then. Actually catalogued about sixty rods of the early 1900s onwards for a gentleman who had a stroke and his wife asked me to arrange the sale of, but non bore any resemblance although they where all top quality makers. He also had over 50 first edition books on fishing, amazing man but tragic as well. Edited July 12, 2019 by Walker570 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchman Posted July 15, 2019 Author Report Share Posted July 15, 2019 The tip tube............. i should have taken some pics ...before i started...the tube being 120 years old was a write off....6 cracks in it from 1/4" to 1/2" wide and the tube was bent as well..........so i chucked it in a container of water for 3 days which by the 3rd day did the trick...cracks were nearly closed...so whilst it was still wet i put 12 jubillee clips on it and tightened them up whilst it was still soaking ..a little bit for another 2 days...........then i took it out....tightened the clips right up and poured 10 kettles of boiling water it it one after the other...then left it to dry...for 3 days....released the clips and the cracks opened up about 2 mm...... lathered a load of epoxy in the cracks and gently clipped them shut.....left for anther 2 days......then started to clean it up (see below) i havnt taken out all the marks as they are its history.....i shall give it a light sand then mix up a little stain with boiled linseed oil and apply later ....will post it up when i have re-charged the camera battery hope its not too boring ditch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TIGHTCHOKE Posted July 15, 2019 Report Share Posted July 15, 2019 Fascinating Mate, had it cracked through drying out or was it just age and neglect? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchman Posted July 15, 2019 Author Report Share Posted July 15, 2019 15 minutes ago, TIGHTCHOKE said: Fascinating Mate, had it cracked through drying out or was it just age and neglect? it had totally dried out...................i hadnt seen it for 30 years....if it had been somewhere cooler it would have been ok.....thats why im going to treat it as a gun stock....so the wood stays alive..............bamboo is loverly to work but it blunts tools quick as ive been told the wood contains silica.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Penelope Posted July 15, 2019 Report Share Posted July 15, 2019 27 minutes ago, ditchman said: it had totally dried out...................i hadnt seen it for 30 years....if it had been somewhere cooler it would have been ok.....thats why im going to treat it as a gun stock....so the wood stays alive..............bamboo is loverly to work but it blunts tools quick as ive been told the wood contains silica.... Bamboo is a grass and grass contains silica. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchman Posted July 15, 2019 Author Report Share Posted July 15, 2019 (edited) all oiled up now......and cleaned the verdigris of the brasswork............the other day i took the butt spear point and de-rusted it and re-blued it back to its original colour.......i shall now recoat the tube with oil for a few days then wrap and pack everything up...and will do the woodwork on the rods and eyes when i am in my new place in about a years time.... what i will have to look for now is a old original centre pin reel (brass proberly) to go with the rod about 1900-1920ish...they are about ...will just have to keep my eye out... ditch Edited July 15, 2019 by ditchman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TIGHTCHOKE Posted July 15, 2019 Report Share Posted July 15, 2019 Surely a nice old reel will be quite expensive? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchman Posted July 15, 2019 Author Report Share Posted July 15, 2019 (edited) 26 minutes ago, TIGHTCHOKE said: Surely a nice old reel will be quite expensive? they range from £4000.00 down to £50 quid..........all depends on the maker and the model............there is a beaut' on e-bay for "buy it now" for £60.00...every bit as nice as a Hardy...or Westly Richards did you know Hardy also made shotguns ? Edited July 15, 2019 by ditchman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TIGHTCHOKE Posted July 15, 2019 Report Share Posted July 15, 2019 No I didn't! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchman Posted July 15, 2019 Author Report Share Posted July 15, 2019 49 minutes ago, TIGHTCHOKE said: No I didn't! and did you know westly Richards made fishing rods ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
panoma1 Posted July 15, 2019 Report Share Posted July 15, 2019 1 hour ago, TIGHTCHOKE said: No I didn't! 24 minutes ago, ditchman said: and did you know westly Richards made fishing rods ? I did! ........smart**** eh! Lol! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchman Posted July 15, 2019 Author Report Share Posted July 15, 2019 and did you know that ditchman has got nothing else better to do than p*** about in his shed amusing you bloody lot......... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dead eye alan Posted July 16, 2019 Report Share Posted July 16, 2019 Never a dull moment with you Simon you just keep on delivering snippets of history, you haven't given your own opinel the treatment yet? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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