Bob Southwell Car Boot Find Very Rare!

[Fredline]

I picked up this pair of beauties this morning for a song, they were laying amongst a pile of old cane rods. The labels are a little battered but you can between the 2 make out the name and address of the maker. I know Bob played in a little known beat combo on the 1950's called "Funk It" and they were quite popular around the London cafe scene with Kenny Kendal on bass and Ogden Smith on keyboards. They are undoubtedly Southwell sticks because of the way the maple nodes have been flattened and it is a process he apparently used in his main occupation supplying fishing rod blanks to the rest of the planet. The tapering at the tip of Bobs' sticks is so redolent of the very early Mk 1V blanks with the angled hollow disglemptering that makes these classic rods "classic". The action is quite stunning making paradiddles a doddle. These are not an item you see very often.
Next week, Billy Lanes Banjo.

[Liphook]

I'll look forward to seeing the guide spacing on those!
I have a felt plectrum given to me by Noel Reading. It wasn't made by Isaac Walton unfortunately

[Aitch]

I use Vic Firth sticks... although I can't paradiddle to save me life...

[Lea Dweller]

I use Vic Firth sticks... although I can't paradiddle to save me life...

Did you know that Vic Firth was an apprentice to Bob Southwell? Not many people know that!

[Wallys-Cast]

I can paradiddle in my sleep, in fact I often doo.

Wal.

[Lea Dweller]

I can paradiddle in my sleep, in fact I often doo.

Wal.

I would have kept it quiet Wal!

[Wallys-Cast]

I have an awful job keeping it quiet Ted.

[Dave Burr]

For those of us that speak English.... ???

[PershoreHarrier]

Some one told me the group 'Funk It' had a blue grass period where the famous blues singer Mowen de Lorne was on vocals.

[Fredline]

For those of us that speak English.... ???

one of the basic patterns (rudiments) of drumming, consisting of four even strokes played in the order ‘left right left left’ or ‘right left right right’.