Any information about the rod or value of the rod would be most welcome. It is 81 inches assembled. It says Carlson’s Mount Carmel on it. I understand that it is fiberglass.

there's the greatest chance the rod was custom built from a sourced glass blank, and we'd need detail photos in order to guess its pedigree.

So far, though, sounds like a great rod.

ps - there's a current Carlson Rod company (Townsend, MA), begun by Sam Carlson in the '50s or 60s, making quadrate cane rods, that also googles up a Mt. Carmel hit by their historic reference to Edwards (quadrate rods) of Mt. Carmel, CT.
It would be very interesting if we could link this glass rod to Sam Carlson.
You might also want to contact the current owner of Carlson Rods.

Also need photos of the reel seat, the writing, the winding check (the piece right in front of the grip, and the ferrules. Try to take the photos so the photobucket logo doesn't block the view - or use postimage. Sam Carlson was a machinist and rod builder known for his quadrate (4 sided) bamboo rods. He worked for the Edwards rod company in Mt. Carmel as well as for the Leonard rod company. He passed in 2002 and today his protege Dana Gray carries on his quad tradition. Many of the bamboo rod builders of the 50's, 60's, and early 70's built some fiberglass rods in an effort to make whatever money they could. Many were built on Conolon blanks. What little I can see of the wraps and winding check looks like it has Edwards influence and may have been made by Sam or someone who worked for him and probably dates to the late 50's or 60's. Or it could have been built by a hobbyist in the style of Edwards. Someone who's familiar with Sam's handwriting might be able to identify it. Even with better photos, value may be hard to set. In general, fiberglass rods of this vintage don't bring much but the Carlson Mt. Carmel heritage may be worth more to a collector even though it is fiberglass.

Guys, if you click on his image, it's a link to his photobucket album with nearly enough photos.
It's not a fly rod, but a spinning rod, with loop guides and the reel seat lets you adjust the reel position anywhere on the full cork handle.
One of our Herter's guys needs to chime in on the reel seat.

Brown glass, super-Z ferrules probably dates to the mid-late-50s. The wrap style also matches the period.
It's a high-grade rod, and that is a beauty of a winding check.
There were a number of glass makers producing similar blanks, including Conolon and Silaflex on the west coast, Phillipson in the Rockies, St. Croix, South Bend in the midwest, Montague, later True Temper on the east coast (initially buying Conolon blanks before making their own). Herters bought glass blanks from St. Croix and True Temper.

Now that good progress has been made and this turns out to be a spinning rod, I'll move the thread to that section, where maybe some of the spinning enthusiasts may recognize more about the rod. It doesn't look like a Herter's "Browntone" blank to me. Best guess, just on appearance, Conolon, but that's far from definitive.

I agree, a small shop build, not high value, even if from someone with some renown in other types/materials.

Just saw this thread.
Sam did make the rod.He made and sold a lot of fiberglass rods in the late fifties/early sixties, as did both Gene and Bill Edwards. As others have stated, not much value, but would certainly be a lot more desirable as a fly rod.
Tiptop, just an FYI, Sam never worked for Leonard, but they did want to bring him there. I still have a letter of the offer they made him that included buying his business, but Verna (Sam's wife) had no interest in moving to New York, so that never came to fruition.
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thanks for adding such great information, and welcome to FFR.
Hope you stay and play.