Unknown gamble ... an A E Rudge from circa 1950
Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2015 9:42 pm
OK ... so I've either lost the plot altogether, and I'm prepared to be shot down in flames ... or, there's something I can do with this rod. Either way ... I think it will make a nice little project.
I have just pressed the 'buy it now' button on this curious little rod ... partly because I feel sorry for it ... partly because it's only 15 miles away ... and partly because I like various aspects of it, like the spigotted joints and the strangely "Allcockian" look to it.
It's a 3 piece rod comprised of a whole cane butt, a spliced whole cane centre, and a whole cane spliced to split cane tip. I didn't even ask the length, but I'm guessing about 10ft. 6in. to 11ft.
It has been 're-built' with new guides ... but seemingly by someone who has looked at split cane rods and not whole cane ... as it seems that none of the nodes have been whipped over, apart from the splicing.
It has also had the cork on the handle painted in gloss green !!!!!! (the gods of the angle forgive them).
The name of A E Rudge is impressed into the butt cap ... but on the rod itself there is only the hand-written name and address of a gentleman who lived at an address in Birmingham in 1950 ... not far from Villa Park ... and now a junior school, apparently.
Oh well ... whatever it's like it will give me something to do when the gout is at it's worst ! ;-)
I have just pressed the 'buy it now' button on this curious little rod ... partly because I feel sorry for it ... partly because it's only 15 miles away ... and partly because I like various aspects of it, like the spigotted joints and the strangely "Allcockian" look to it.
It's a 3 piece rod comprised of a whole cane butt, a spliced whole cane centre, and a whole cane spliced to split cane tip. I didn't even ask the length, but I'm guessing about 10ft. 6in. to 11ft.
It has been 're-built' with new guides ... but seemingly by someone who has looked at split cane rods and not whole cane ... as it seems that none of the nodes have been whipped over, apart from the splicing.
It has also had the cork on the handle painted in gloss green !!!!!! (the gods of the angle forgive them).
The name of A E Rudge is impressed into the butt cap ... but on the rod itself there is only the hand-written name and address of a gentleman who lived at an address in Birmingham in 1950 ... not far from Villa Park ... and now a junior school, apparently.
Oh well ... whatever it's like it will give me something to do when the gout is at it's worst ! ;-)