The alloy foot on a pre-patent Pflueger Medalist 1494, or a Classic One Pfoot on a later 1494.
Same with Pflueger Gem


Martin alloy foot on LM45 LM56


how about the Martin alloy foot on 67N or MG-7?


Hardy Hydra


The thinnest foot I know is a Pflueger Progress, same foot shown here on a 4Bros Delite, but would have to find an 80-yd or hen's tooth 100-yd reel to fit the line.

you're welcome

I thought about swapping out the reel seat, but would prefer to leave things "as is" if at all possible. Bulldog gave me enough reel options to choose from. Thanks for taking time to reply.

Doug:

If you don't have one already, you may want to invest in a dial caliper to measure that Martin 61 foot so you can do some reel foot thickness comparisons. It would be a lot easier than trial & error if you knew how thick the Martin foot was. Once you did that, some of us so inclined could measure stuff we think could work as comparison.

I’ve measured reel feet many times when buying a custom rod with a custom seat insert after getting a few that were a bit too tight for my preferred reel choice. I measure the foot thickness at the very end of the foot with a dial caliper and back from the tip about 3/8” -1/2” as a reference for the builder.

The dial caliper will come in handy for other uses too so it won’t be a waste of money and these days you can get an one good enough for your purposes, cheap.

If you take my suggestion, I'd be more than happy to measure a stock One Pfoot Medalist replacement foot I have and anything else that I think might work for you and post the results.

It may even be a decent topic for a sticky.

Good luck in your search regardless!

A quick measurement reveals the following regarding the thickness of these feet measured at the very end of the foot from the INSIDE the curve to the outside of the curve:

Original 1950’s version Medalist 1494 foot - .032”

OnePfoot Original replacement Medalist 1494 foot (Silver) - .044”

OnePfoot Original replacement Medalist 1494 foot (Black) - .044”

The thickness further up the foot about where it would bottom out in a reel seat hood is a little trickier to measure, but in all of my attempts to measure that, the original Medalist foot is thinner or should I say, less thick with a shallower rise.

I don't know if it matters but both of the OnePfoot feet I measured were bought directly from Bill Franke and while I assume the Dan Hill versions are identical, I can't be sure because I don't own any.

Unless I am missing something, if the reelseat in question won’t accept a standard Medalist foot as per Doug’s original comments, it probably won’t accept either of the OnePfoot replacements.

I don’t own a Martin 61 to measure but it would be interesting to see how it measures up.

The Pfeet I measured were the Classic (non bright) and the black version of the same.

Isn't the foot on a Martin 61 almost flat with little or almost no rise?

If so that may be the problem, there is literally no room under the rings on Doug's reelseat to accommodate anything that rises more than a few thousandths of an inch.

every reel I posted will fit a slimmer reel seat band than this will


but you can certainly see how this foot is much more like a Pflueger Progress foot.


Here's a One Pfoot, Bill made spacers for me to fit an M-68 - the centers are the same as Medalist.

fwiw, Bill always used me to test all his products, especially when he was introducing something new, and any parts I bought from him were wholesale.
The Young Pfoot series was my idea.
The black anodized feet are the thinnest Bill made.


you can also see how the One Pfoot will go places the steel Martin foot won't go

I haven't tried it, yet, but the foot I had break on the 1498DA wasn't very hard metal.
I have a few grinders, a lot of files and an oxy-acetylene torch. I'd not be cutting on one of those collectors but there are scads of cheap Japan and China Medalist out there to cannibalize. I think some of them had plastic feet that should interchange.

Trev, it's brass inside, but it's chrome on top. Altering things by grinder is dumb.
If you can swap out the foot without destroying anything, fine.
But taking tools to put a square peg in a round hole is beyond stubborn.

Pick a different reel or different rod, it's not like all of us don't have more than one each.

1917 Hardy St. George with a 2-7/8" alloy foot, have your friend make you a rod for it.