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As you can probably tell from the picture the 12ft Matchmaster is in a horrendous state. So far I have removed the rings and about 30ft of ancient sellotape which covered all the whippings and half the handle. Some of the original whippings had sellotape over them, and then additional whippings on top of that?! There are some splits in the whole cane sections which I think (hope!) cascamite will sort and the handle needs some shrives replacing. After some cleaning at least the ferrules seem OK. The original butt ring is useable but all of the others will need replacing. Allowing for my inexperience this will be a long refurb but I'm going to enjoy the experience and hope to end up with a useable rod - eventually.
The Flex Lite has probably the thickest butt section of any glass rod I have ever seen, but isn't as heavy as I expected. It is in pretty good nick, some light corrosion on the rings and a surprisingly big butt ring for what I assume to be a float rod. Pleasingly it has the original bag complete with Milwards swingtag. It might not get used much but caught my interest as I didn't know they did fibreglass rods.
Also included were 2x 4ft whole cane landing net handles. One has flame decoration and just needs a clean and varnish, the other is split all the way along so will provide a useful spare threaded ferrule when I get round to making a longer handle.
All in all £2 well spent
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