A bit of spit and polish soon had it looking good again, a little copper plating on the spindle took out much of the wobble and making up a new line guard completed the look. There was no ratchet on the reel so I made a lightweight brake to stop the line spooling off when I fall asleep.
It balance well with the 9ft rod and I took it to the Jolly but with only a 6" specimen gudgeon to my credit, took no prizes
Now I had 5 spare reels that I really didn't need, there was a perfect Bakerlite reel in the lot which spun like a gooden, so I polished it up and dropped it of in the charity shop.The remainder sadly I was forced to give them the once over ,
Some of them needed quite a lot of work but good practice especially letting in pieces of wood into the broken rims and then staining them to blend in.
The thing is what do I do with another 4 wooden reels which I will probably never use?
JW
