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reel seat Q's for a blank scott rod |
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Posts: 56 (05/04/09 12:29:14) |
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
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Posts: 377 (05/04/09 23:41:51) |
Depended on the length and line weight... mostly. Yours?
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Posts: 57 (05/05/09 05:16:26) |
It's an 8ft 6wt blank. Any help or direction would be awesome.
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Posts: 3 (05/08/09 13:09:54) |
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.
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Posts: 379 (05/08/09 20:19:25) |
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.
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Posts: 58 (05/09/09 04:56:27) |
Thanks guys, I sent Mike an email, but yet to hear from him, I would imagine he is busy.
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Posts: 98 (05/09/09 16:48:53) |
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 version was gold, changed to rust red in about 1978.
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Sport
Posts: 4 (05/09/09 20:53:18) |
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.
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Posts: 59 (05/10/09 05:00:37) |
I've sen the uplocking in gold,but not red/brown
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Posts: 99 (05/10/09 11:16:48) |
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.
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Posts: 60 (05/10/09 14:14:41) |
Mr. Kenney,
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Posts: 100 (05/10/09 18:12:48) |
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.
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Posts: 61 (05/10/09 19:13:18) |
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
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