Stripped Gypsy D'or ( D'Argent ? )

[LeeDobson]

Just finished stripping and refurbing an old Grice & Young Gyspy D'or ( or D'argent ) hard to find out concrete info as they shared bits, the old 1950's hammered finish paint was very worn on the backplate so I thought it none too sacrilegious to remove it all, a few days in neat Dettol got rid of most of it, then a final scrub with some Bartoline paint stripper got rid of what was left in the crannies.
I repainted the boss lettering using Vallejo Iraqi sand acrylic ( being a military modeller I have ready access to paint ) and put some new oil on the pin and ptfe grease on the ratchet, the brass foot got a polish with Autosol

The paint does hide a lot of unfinished tooling marks, which the maker obviously knew would be hidden under the probably chock full of lead enamel paint

Before and after, thanks for looking

[EricW]

Nice job Lee. How did you get on with matching the paint?

[Duckett]

I’m seriously impressed with the lettering Lee. I’m an N Gauge railway modeller (1:160 version) and I wouldn’t have attempted that, or got it looking so good!

Phil

[LeeDobson]

Cheers lads, the colour I just eyeball matched to what I'd seen on other Grice & Young reels online, painting the lettering is much easier than it looks, you just paint all over the whole text area then wipe it back off, leaving the lettering

[Crucian]

That looks very nice, well done.

[Wallys-Cast]

A lovely job Lee. I always thought the D'argent was silver and the D'ore was gold but it could be taken as gold for top quality and silver for second. There seems to be a difference in the hole patterns but everything else looks the same. Both models use two different type of line pillars.
Very nice reels to use and well thought out.
I sprayed a couple with Hammerite. The gold is too gold if you get my meaning but the silver looks great.
Your lettering looks superb, I use tyre lettering pencil, same method, fill it up then wipe off the excess. Results are similar but yours definitely look better.

Wal.

[Cat]

Lovely job...well done. I have an early d'Or in silver...the one with the sticker on the back (well, it's an early one). Nice reels to use (although I did have a complaint from another angler once about the noise from the rachet)! Regards Cat

[Wallys-Cast]

Lovely job...well done. I have an early d'Or in silver...the one with the sticker on the back (well, it's an early one). Nice reels to use (although I did have a complaint from another angler once about the noise from the rachet)! Regards Cat

Probably just upset because you were catching and he wasn"t

[Cat]

Wal, you are indeed correct...it was last season, a good day for tench on prawn as I remember. After fist fish, followed by complaint, I uttered 'Ooh! Another tench' another three times.

[Cat]

...Gypsy d'or combined with a Sharpe's Avon.