The Hunter SP 12' 3 piece
Re: The Hunter SP 12' 3 piece
davyr wrote:My "plain" Hunter does have all those! So what do we think SP stands for then -Super Posh?greentura wrote:The 'SP' denotes having butt and tip aqualites and intermediates on some rods although most have aqualites anyway.
Mine too. Mine, which I'm pretty sure is original and un-restored, has a very red agate guide for both the butt and tip. The butt guide is also of an odd size, almost halfway between a standard float rod agate and a stand-off avon butt guide. I'll try and get some pictures up soon.
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Here are a couple of photos of the relevant bits of my Hunter - it'll be interesting to see how they compare to Haydn's. I'm not sure if my rod was very lightly-used or just well-restored, but it does look pretty immaculate, even if I do say so myself!
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That's a sad looking tip guide Davyr. The rod looks restored, the finish was never that good, brown whippings by the look of it and a 'new' Chapmans gold oval, none of mine have them, maybe yours is older. the writing is the wrong way up compared to both the ones i have now and others i have seen and all of them have the 'R Chapman & Co Ware, Herts' transfer and around the whippings for the keeper ring "hollow built". I hope to be in contact with John Chapman and will ask what the 'SP' and 'NL' mean :thumb:
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Yes, restored, I expect. Mine has no keeper ring, The whippings are "wine" (as described on the Chapmans site: http://www.chapmanblanks.co.uk/wordpress/?page_id=644). It's a pity that site only has drawings of the rods and not photos, isn't it?
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Mine has very dark (almost black) whippings. I spoke to John last week and he said that they used to use dark brown/wine coloured thread. Mine has the gold oval lable like yours, Davyr. I do need to do a bit of work on mine; not much, just replace a few very lightly rusted eyes and perhaps over-varnish it as it really is in good original condition. I shall try and get some pictures up over the weekend.
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My next hunter project arrived last week and it too has a rounded cork end on the handle but is also marked 'SP' now more confused than before :think:
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This went very cheap.
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Anyone on here the lucky recipient?
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... true&rt=nc
Anyone on here the lucky recipient?
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"Collection in person only" does tend to put bidders off.Haydn Clarke wrote:This went very cheap.
Especially when it's from Stevenage.
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Well it wouldn't have put me off as I can go home via Stevenage. If I didn't already have one I'd have taken a punt on that as I paid nearly double for mine. I may not have won but at least I'd have pushed the lucky sod who did win it that little bit further.