Some Andy B floats and others.....

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Hello all,

I'm not personally interested in all these flashy floats available nowadays....quite happy with a cheap and nasty plastic chubber float myself. But for you Float Fairies some Andy Batchelor floats available in this auction Ebay number - 331466854100.

May interest some of you.

Cheerio.

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Core they look nice! :)
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I was looking closely at those before I read the text.



Looks familiar, I thought......scratching my head....then I read the text. Pretty sure only one of them is mine though.


Andy makes some lovely traditional tackle and his prices are better then just about anybody else that I am aware of.

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Nobby wrote:I was looking closely at those before I read the text.



Looks familiar, I thought......scratching my head....then I read the text. Pretty sure only one of them is mine though.


Andy makes some lovely traditional tackle and his prices are better then just about anybody else that I am aware of.

...apart from my prices of course. :Wink:

A cracking box of floats. bet they make a pretty penny.
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Andy's floats are great! But I don't care for the ones that are painted with scenes on, like old oil paintings!
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That was the idea of them...I think the maker is, or was, a member here and folk were asking him to do miniatures of favourite swims and suchlike.

Not so easy on a 4BB Avon.........

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Bernard J Mason, I think was the chaps name.
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In that case they're very good for what they are, small works of art and commissioned to boot.
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Beautiful floats on his web page and if I could afford them I would love them. I would never use them though in case I lost them (almost certain with my casting) :(

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Ha ha, I have three of his marvellous floats he sent me during the Christmas float swap a few years ago.
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