reel seat Q's for a blank scott rod

Re: reel seat Q's for a blank scott rod

feeds@yuku.com (fingernail) — Sun, 10 May 2009 19:13:18 GMT

Excellent! thank you, I saw one last week 7'6" 4pc yellow sanded, wasn't sure but everything said Scott, it was marked Abercombie and Fitch

Re: reel seat Q's for a blank scott rod

feeds@yuku.com (L Kenney) — Sun, 10 May 2009 18:12:48 GMT

Harry Wilson made a very few short yellow glass rods, almost certainly on Lamiglas blanks, for the SF Abercrombie & Fitch store in San Francisco in the very early 1970s. I don't remember whether they showed A&F, or Scott PowR-ply, or both, on the signature.

Re: reel seat Q's for a blank scott rod

feeds@yuku.com (fingernail) — Sun, 10 May 2009 14:14:41 GMT

Mr. Kenney,
Thank you, by chance do you have any info on Scott making rods for Abercrombie and Fitch?
Thanks
Rick

Re: reel seat Q's for a blank scott rod

feeds@yuku.com (L Kenney) — Sun, 10 May 2009 11:16:48 GMT

The image in fingernail's post shows the early gold uplock. We switched to a slide band in that same color, then to rust red. After 1977 or so, uplock real seats wouldn't have been used on anything lighter than a #6 line rod unless special ordered that way.

Re: reel seat Q's for a blank scott rod

feeds@yuku.com (fingernail) — Sun, 10 May 2009 05:00:37 GMT

I've sen the uplocking in gold,but not red/brown

Re: reel seat Q's for a blank scott rod

feeds@yuku.com (Golfswithwolves) — Sat, 09 May 2009 20:53:18 GMT

Mr. Kenney should be the best source! I have not seen one of those first type of Scott reel seats he knows about, so have learned something new. Also, there's a picture of most of a Scott rod's handle at the top of the page of the "Rod Pictures" section of this forum; I guess they still use that same set-up these days too.

Re: reel seat Q's for a blank scott rod

feeds@yuku.com (L Kenney) — Sat, 09 May 2009 16:48:53 GMT

The first F805s (originally F80s) were build with uplock gold anodized all metal reel seats with two locking rings. The top one incorporated a hood to grab the reel boot. The bottom one was shrouded and capped with cork and served as the butt cap (there's a sketch of the seat in Harmon Henkin's book Fly Tackle: A Guide To Tools of the Trade, Lippincott 1976). We changed to a slide band cork spacer seat with a fixed cap at butt and a slide ring above in about 1976. The first...

Re: reel seat Q's for a blank scott rod

feeds@yuku.com (fingernail) — Sat, 09 May 2009 04:56:27 GMT

Thanks guys, I sent Mike an email, but yet to hear from him, I would imagine he is busy.

Re: reel seat Q's for a blank scott rod

feeds@yuku.com (nativebrownie) — Fri, 08 May 2009 20:19:25 GMT

Agreed, the only 8 footer, 5 piece, did have a cap and ring with cork seat. The other 8 footers, 2 piece, that I have seen were generally uplocking anodized aluminum or wood spacer. Check with Mike McFarland (sp), he recently posted some vintage Scott reelesats - may have one left. That'd be ideal, IMHO.

Re: reel seat Q's for a blank scott rod

feeds@yuku.com (Golfswithwolves) — Fri, 08 May 2009 13:09:54 GMT

One type of reel seat they seem to have used on early rods was a down-locking system with a cap and a sliding ring. This was made with cork when I saw it, not wood. I have later Scott rods with uplocking black-anodized aluminum components: one has a cork filler and one has a dark red/brown wood filler.

Re: reel seat Q's for a blank scott rod

feeds@yuku.com (fingernail) — Tue, 05 May 2009 05:16:26 GMT

It's an 8ft 6wt blank. Any help or direction would be awesome.

Re: reel seat Q's for a blank scott rod

feeds@yuku.com (nativebrownie) — Mon, 04 May 2009 23:41:51 GMT

Depended on the length and line weight... mostly. Yours?

NB

reel seat Q's for a blank scott rod

feeds@yuku.com (fingernail) — Mon, 04 May 2009 12:29:14 GMT

Hello Guys,
Need some help, I just recently aquired a scott brown blank and was wondering what they may have used as a reel seat? I've seen the yellow blanks but don't recall ever seeing the brown. Any help would be great!!
Thanks