Abbey Bread Punch
- AshbyCut
- Honorary President
- Posts: 10142
- Joined: Sun May 06, 2012 1:27 am
- 11
- Location: North Warwickshire
Abbey Bread Punch
What a great find for my coming new season on the Ashby Canal !!!
Winging it's way to me is this "new old stock' Abbey Bread punch, made by Asco Products of Horwich, near Bolton.
Supplied with 3 sizes of brass punch, the spares are held in the barrel to keep them safe.
It looks like it has a 'pen style clip,' so will slip nicely into one of the top pockets on my gilet !
Winging it's way to me is this "new old stock' Abbey Bread punch, made by Asco Products of Horwich, near Bolton.
Supplied with 3 sizes of brass punch, the spares are held in the barrel to keep them safe.
It looks like it has a 'pen style clip,' so will slip nicely into one of the top pockets on my gilet !
"Beside the water I discovered (or maybe rediscovered) the quiet. The sort of quiet that allows one to be woven into the tapestry of nature instead of merely standing next to it." Estaban.
- Duckett
- Tench
- Posts: 2889
- Joined: Wed May 17, 2017 2:42 pm
- 6
- Location: Stratford E15
Re: Abbey Bread Punch
Blimey Mal, that takes me back. My first ever bread punch in the early 1970s looked identical to that, right down to the red plastic screw in cap! Thanks for sharing.
Phil
Phil
From "... the wilds of the Wirral, whose wayward people both God and good men have quite given up on ...".
- Silfield
- Brown Trout
- Posts: 1455
- Joined: Mon Jan 28, 2019 8:31 pm
- 5
- Location: Norfolk
Re: Abbey Bread Punch
Ooh! I still have and use one of those, bought from the local tackle shop with some pocket money.
“There is certainly something in angling that tends to produce a serenity of the mind.”
Washington Irving
Washington Irving
- Penninelad
- Arctic Char
- Posts: 1537
- Joined: Tue Dec 03, 2013 5:12 pm
- 10
- Location: Sheffield
Re: Abbey Bread Punch
I still have one in my tackle box,although I rarely use it. I should do ,but don't eat the white sliced bread that you need to use the punch on.
Mark Davies
- Coral Maestro
- Chub
- Posts: 1041
- Joined: Sun Feb 02, 2020 2:58 pm
- 4
- Location: Correze, France
Re: Abbey Bread Punch
I had one when I was a nipper but it had a metal screw in cap rather than a plastic one. I'll have to see if it made the journey out to France.
What do they know of fishing who know only one fish and one way to fish for him?
- Jack Hargreaves.
- Jack Hargreaves.
- Catfish.017
- Eel
- Posts: 2203
- Joined: Wed Apr 04, 2012 8:53 am
- 12
- Location: Fradley Junction quite often!
Re: Abbey Bread Punch
Yep, mine had a brass cap too. Only lost it a few years ago. Happily got a replacement in a job lot last year.Coral Maestro wrote: ↑Thu Feb 25, 2021 6:45 am I had one when I was a nipper but it had a metal screw in cap rather than a plastic one. I'll have to see if it made the journey out to France.
- Vole
- Rainbow Trout
- Posts: 3020
- Joined: Wed Oct 19, 2011 6:48 am
- 12
- Location: Barnet
Re: Abbey Bread Punch
Always wondered how you hook the bread - especially at breathless matchman speed - without ruining the hook-point?
"Write drunk, edit sober" - Hemingway.
Hemingway didn't have to worry about accidentally hitting "submit" before he edited.
Hemingway didn't have to worry about accidentally hitting "submit" before he edited.
- John Milford
- Grayling
- Posts: 504
- Joined: Mon Apr 03, 2023 11:05 am
- 1
- Location: Derbyshire's Amber Valley
Re: Abbey Bread Punch
I'm not sure if the Abbey is the same, but one of my similar bread punches has a slot in each of the four brass heads, through which the bread pellet can be easily hooked?
(On a second one of mine, only the two smallest heads are slotted, but the larger two are not).
You do not have the required permissions to view the files attached to this post.
A seeker of "the fell tyrant of the liquid plain".
- Vole
- Rainbow Trout
- Posts: 3020
- Joined: Wed Oct 19, 2011 6:48 am
- 12
- Location: Barnet
Re: Abbey Bread Punch
Mine's probably not a pukka "Abbey", then. Maybe I should risk its vintage status and slot the heads!
"Write drunk, edit sober" - Hemingway.
Hemingway didn't have to worry about accidentally hitting "submit" before he edited.
Hemingway didn't have to worry about accidentally hitting "submit" before he edited.
- JAA
- Crucian Carp
- Posts: 753
- Joined: Thu Mar 03, 2022 4:24 pm
- 2
- Location: Dorset
- Contact:
Re: Abbey Bread Punch
I shall be slotting mine directly...John Milford wrote: ↑Mon Jul 10, 2023 4:21 pmI'm not sure if the Abbey is the same, but one of my similar bread punches has a slot in each of the four brass heads, through which the bread pellet can be easily hooked?
(On a second one of mine, only the two smallest heads are slotted, but the larger two are not).
Screenshot_20230710-161222_Photos~2.jpg
¯`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸,.·´¯ ><(((º>
Cole aka JAA
https://crucians.org/
https://www.anotherangler.net/
Cole aka JAA
https://crucians.org/
https://www.anotherangler.net/