Skeletons: a Collector's Guide to Raised Pillar Fly Reels

Description

This comprehensive text includes information from ORCA’s Reel News Editor. If you are like most collectors, you have numerous Skeleton fly reels-those raised pillar fly reels commonly known as the Skeleton Reel-lying around. In this work, noted fly reel collector and ORCA's Reel News editor Richard K. Lodge has compiled the most detailed history and collector's guide to these hidden gems written to date. In this book, the author covers the history of Skeleton reels, including examples from Abbey & Imbrie, AL&W, Armax, Barney & Berry, Bronson, Carlton, Shapleigh, Eckmier, Hendryx, Horrocks & Ibbotson, Kalamazoo, Kineya, Kopf, Meisselbach, Mitchell, Montague, Ocean City, Pflueger, Queen City, Shakespeare, Skilton, South Bend, Whittemore, Tokoz, Union Hardware, U.S. Net & Twine, VL&A, Weinberg, Winchester, Yale, and Generic Imported and Domestic Skeleton reels. In addition, Lodge teaches the reader valuable techniques for identifying your Skeleton, including counterbalances, spool cutouts, and knobs. So take those Skeletons out of your closet and discover a whole new world of collecting!