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blue collar reel parade!
Post 02 Nov 2017, 17:41 • #1 
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Just a random pic of a few vintage blue collar "line holders" collected over the years. I love pairing them with my mostly vintage glass rods. Martin, Shakespeare, South Bend, Cortland... the list goes on...
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bulldog1935
Post 03 Nov 2017, 08:12 • #2 
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great reels, but I'll always take exception with JW Young, Medalist, and 1st model Russell being called blue-collar.
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Post 03 Nov 2017, 08:22 • #3 
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Ha! How about tweed-jacket quality, blue-collar price?
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Post 03 Nov 2017, 11:05 • #4 
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My buddy from work, a dedicated Sage and Ross fisher, just finished a Medalist/Fenwick vintage rig project. A re-build of a 1494 with clean up and new paint and Pfoot parts. Nothing Blue Collar about it...well except for the price :) He paid $15 for the reel and $45 for the FF806.
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Post 03 Nov 2017, 11:35 • #5 
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BD, yes i would agree... but there isnt a young or medalist in the bunch. :-)

In the image above -- from the left, moving counterclockwise: cortland crown (red, martin-made i believe), cortland crown bfr made in england), shakespeare sigma usa (ok, this is a medalist clone), martins a 67ssa, 67ss, 67a, mg7; sealy flylyte, shakespeare russell, pfleuger progress, laurentian dry fly, meisselbach rainbow 627; center, from L to R: a,shakespeare purist 7595, south bend oreno #1165.

hope this helps!


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Post 03 Nov 2017, 14:43 • #6 
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hmmm
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Post 03 Nov 2017, 16:03 • #7 
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Yes, that is a pridex for sure.

OK let's try again...
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from the left, moving counterclockwise: cortland crown (red, martin-made i believe), cortland crown bfr made in england), shakespeare sigma usa (ok, this is a medalist clone), martins -- 67ssa, 67ss, 67a, mg7; a sealy flylyte, shakespeare russell, pfleuger progress, laurentian dry fly, a spitfire meisselbach rainbow #627; in the center, from L to R: shakespeare purist 7595, a south bend oreno #1165.
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WW
Post 14 Nov 2017, 08:56 • #8 
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And the great 2017 internet photo purge continues. So sad...
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Post 14 Nov 2017, 10:03 • #9 
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what does that mean?
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WW
Post 15 Nov 2017, 07:49 • #10 
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I'm not seeing any of picketpin's photos. Just the notice from photobucket to update his account to allow 3rd party hosting.

Perhaps over the holiday season I'll pick another service and upload everything again. What's been working for folks?
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bulldog1935
Post 15 Nov 2017, 08:15 • #11 
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unless the OP deleted their photobucket account, all the links are still hot - these free add ons for Chrome and Firefox let you see past them, and work perfectly

stiles wrote:
Apparently this add-on is a free fix for hot linking images from photobucket.
For Mozilla:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... ucket-fix/

For Chrome:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/deta ... 6768501086


if for some reason you ever don't want them, it's little effort to remove from browser extensions
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Post 15 Nov 2017, 09:04 • #12 
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download the fix (see previous post above) for your browser and you should be able to see them.
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WW
Post 18 Nov 2017, 08:14 • #13 
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Got the fix in! Working great so far.

Moving forward, are folks using somewhere else to host photos so everyone can see them?
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bulldog1935
Post 18 Nov 2017, 08:37 • #14 
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Hi Wayne, I'm using Imgur to upload photos.
I still use my free photobucket as a great database for the several thousand photos.
I'll copy my photobucket photo to a desktop folder, then upload to Imgur.

Also for navigating photobucket now, get the free Chrome ABP ad-blocker add-on. It blocks 64 ads on the first page of photobucket.
Ad blocker programs are what cost photobucket their source on income. If I was running photobucket, I would offer subscribers a rate based on their actual bandwidth usage, which they know for me over the last 14 years - but I'm not running photobucket.
An oldie but a goodie:
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Post 18 Nov 2017, 08:49 • #15 
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I've been using Imgur, but there are other hosting sites too. Postimage is another one.
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Post 18 Nov 2017, 16:06 • #16 
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I am a blue collar reel freak! L to R: Cortland Rimfly on a "tadpole" build, Pfleuger Gem on a Phillipson 76R, Martin Classic MC34.

"Blue collar" can be old or new. "Blue collar" is inexpensive. My ceiling is +/- $30 bucks a reel, but I paid less than that for all three of these! The best blue collar reels are reliable, well-made, built to fish hard, and last. I use blue collar for most freshwater fishing.
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Post 08 Dec 2017, 21:42 • #17 
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I'm guessing imgur has a short life span? ^^
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Post 09 Dec 2017, 07:55 • #18 
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almost certainly a link broken by the OP and nothing to do with Imgur life span
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Post 09 Dec 2017, 08:32 • #19 
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Yep, that was me! :) I was cleaning up my account and deleted a bunch of pics on imgur.
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Post 24 Dec 2017, 15:05 • #20 
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Nope, no issues here.........
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Post 24 Dec 2017, 15:07 • #21 
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Good-looking collection!
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Post 25 Dec 2017, 12:44 • #22 
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They're baaaack... blue collar reels rule!
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Post 25 Dec 2017, 13:11 • #23 
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Bears den rod and reel

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Fenwick 857 and I think a Shakespeare or Holmes?

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Airrite Stream and Messelbach Airex

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bulldog1935
Post 25 Dec 2017, 13:21 • #24 
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I'll still argue you can't count Young, Hardy and USA-made Medalist as blue collar reels.
Bronson, OC, postwar Russell, a whole gang of postwar stamped reels...
if it made the Ward's catalog, it gets to be blue collar.
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but those are all great displays
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Post 25 Dec 2017, 14:43 • #25 
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I'll still argue you can't count Young, Hardy and USA-made Medalist as blue collar reels.
Bronson, OC, postwar Russell, a whole gang of postwar stamped reels...
if it made the Ward's catalog, it gets to be blue collar.



Well there is one in the bunch that's NOT Blue Collar, a Hardy LH RH Featherweight. I'd say the Youngs, while not blue collar built, are blue collar priced. That's why I've got 3 of them. :D
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