Swing tips, quick question

[Duckett]

From an angling encycopaedia published in 1960 by Colin Willock.
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Blimey, secondary source but contemporary. If accurate at 1960, that would take us back a few years! Thanks for sharing.

[Kev D]

From an angling encycopaedia published in 1960 by Colin Willock.
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Blimey, secondary source but contemporary. If accurate at 1960, that would take us back a few years! Thanks for sharing.

From the Anglers' Encyclopaedia ,Odhams Press

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[Duckett]

From an angling encycopaedia published in 1960 by Colin Willock.
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Blimey, secondary source but contemporary. If accurate at 1960, that would take us back a few years! Thanks for sharing.

From the Anglers' Encyclopaedia ,Odhams Press
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That fixes it. Sometime before the first print run. So, May 1960 at the very latest.

[Dave Burr]

I'll have a look through my Pete Stone books later... I may have been thinking about the quiver tip.

[Olly]

If you notice it states that the Swing tip is whipped to the end of the rod rather than being screwed in.

The quiver tip was derived I think from a 'donkey top'. A section of solid glass spliced into the hollow glass top joint of a fibreglass rod.

There was also a 'spring tip' which was screwed into the tip ring, so later than the swingtip.

I made all three in the mid 60's from all sorts of materials. For the swing tip, knitting needles, cane, peacock quill, in fact almost any straight material about 9 - 14 inches long! I did make a swing tip with a wire link attached on the top which was capable of having split shot attached to give a variable weight that I still have. Spring tip made from net curtain track. Even made a primitive swinger - a copy of the Allcock's 'Instantell'.

The donkey tops are in Allcock's 1967 guide described as Top Joint Blanks.

[PershoreHarrier]

I have an Allcocks Billy Lane Quiver-Tip Match Combination rod which I bought new in 1967/68. the quiver-tip was supplied for ledgering and was basically a short length of nylon whipped onto a shorter top section with a small tip ring. It was claimed to be Billy Lane's version of the swing-tip.

I used this quiver-tip many times in the late 60s but never really got on with it. I am tempted to give it another go after all these years to see if my technique has improved - well you never know!!

[Kev D]

I'll have a look through my Pete Stone books later... I may have been thinking about the quiver tip.

Yes,l recall him writing about experimenting with fine fibreglass tips for shy-biting roach . He didn't go into detail and l assumed( possibly wrongly) they were quiver tips. They kept breaking and he ran out of fibre glass

[Olly]

[Tony.J.Newman]

I had to do exactly that to my Avon/Quiver after getting it caught up a tree on the river Mole. Funny enough, bought the rod from the man himself in his shop in Bridewell Alley, Norwich!

[Duebel]

Swing tips do actually work!

I caught my first fish on the newly built swing tip today - a lively little roach