INTRODUCTION
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Why I enjoy
collecting antique fishing reels
TIPS
ON COLLECTING
Starting a
collection
Tips on
cleaning your old reels
Official
collector club guide to grading your old reels
Glossary of
common terms used by reel collectors
Recommended
books for novice tackle collectors
Links to
collector clubs, museums, etc.
PHOTOS
OF ANTIQUE FISHING REELS
Gallery 1
Gallery 2
Some old level-wind
reels
Some old
British reels
Some
ball-handle and NY-style reels
Some old
baitbasting reels
ARTICLES
ON ANTIQUE TACKLE MAKERS
REELS AND REELMAKERS
Augustus
D. Hendrick and the Star Reel Works
Elmer
J. Sellers and His Fishing Reel
Who's
Yer Reelmaker?
Assailed
in Two Cities: John Kopf, Reelmaker
The Terry Clock Company's Fishing Reels
Fredrick Wilkie's Clutch Hit
The Clark Brothers and Their Slote Machines
Kopfing Up More Reels
Cranking Out Smith Reels
The "Thunderbird Keahoni" Reel
Jabez B. Crook, Pioneer Reelmaker
The Brinsmaid brothers, early reelmakers from Vermont
James Golcher, noted gunsmith, also made fishing reels.
Matthias Horst, an early Brooklyn Reelmaker
Lemon & Nessel made reels in Indiana.
Sommer Faucet made some of the best-known wooden reels.
An interesting reel from the Taffy Reel Co.
The brief history of United States Net & Twine
A history of Go-Ite Manufacturing Company
HISTORY OF REEL FEATURES
The
Smithsonian Institution's Fishing Reel Patent models
"Windshield-Wiper" Level Winds
Early adjustable brakes on fishing reels
Early magnetic brakes on fishing reels
An
interesting drag by Julius Vom Hofe
A brief history of level-wind reels
Spiral-cam level winds
Centrifugal antibacklash brakes
Veeder line counters on reels
SPINNING REELS
The
Spinning Reels of Edward F. Small
An American original: The First Patented Spinning Reel
Origins of the Closed-Face Spinning Reels
AUTOMATIC REELS
Origins of the Automatic Fishing Reel
Spring Fever in Kentucky: George Cook's automatic reel
FISHING MISCELLANY
Andrew B. Hendryx Uncaged
Leonardo da Vinci�s Reel Failure
The murder of Vaiden Bordner, reel inventor, has never been solved.
OTHER TACKLE
George
W. Burgess, early Pennsylvania rodmaker
John
Krider and the Sportsmen's Depot
Some of the earliest identifiable U.S. tackle dealers
QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS ON VARIOUS REEL TOPICS
General reel
topics
Brands and
companies
Spinning
and spincast reels
Rod-and-reel
combinations
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