takeru, no photos came through from the link.
I would rather see the photos without the text than vice-versa.
More information about the reel comes from the photos, more about dates and places from the text.

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We do recognize hermit fly shop around here...

We were buying from Japan when the only way to do that was using a broker.
I recently used Masamichi at Noppin.com to broker some reel parts from Squid-Mania.

Maybe you can find some images of the Scott reel and post them for us using FFR photo hosting?

perfect - thanks.
Definitely a bench-made reel, finished with type I anodizing.
Beneath the floating spindle is the clutch, on the face plate is adjustable friction brake.
I have never seen this reel before, but the mid-late-70s dates mentioned on the HMT blog fit perfectly.
So many good new reel designs were coming from benches then, as neat as is this reel, it would never compete with Lamson and Marryat.

thank you - great topic

Simpler clutch designs that would win out include variations on the Medalist ratchet (Ross, Valentine);

Lamson used a reversible friction washer stack (also Martin)

Marryat made their own-design roller bearing, and subsequent reels used off-the-shelf one-way roller bearings

what looks like a ratchet on the Orvis/Reddington is just the clicker - it's also a floating spindle design, with the reversible clutch bearing in the spool - the drag stack friction pins the floating spindle

Noteworthy, I found one link on Clark's board, the Scott Powr-Ply fly reel must be Very rare.
http://classicflyrodforum.com/forum/vie ... 72&t=22521
The referenced date is early '60s

this date makes more sense
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=8834#p57371

It also appears two reels carrying this name never made it beyond prototype.

Maybe just me, but the reel foot looks very much like JW Young.........

Very interesting.
The reels mentioned on the HMT blog and in the two links introduced by bulldog have all disk drag system but these are different in drag system experimenting and appearance.
I feel Harry's enthusiasm for innovating this fishing at that time.

Harry liked fishing for big fish with a fly rod in the early 1970s: stripers, salmon, steelhead. His fly reel project started after losting a big salmon on the Eel River. A last minute lunge against a tight drag broke off the fish and banged up his knuckles. Thinking about how not to have that happen again, he designed and then built an anti reverse reel that let the user set a max drag with the usual knob but also allowed for backing off the drag by backing off the handle a quarter turn or so. A quarter turn back picked up the max drag again. He actually patented the design which he said "applied power through the drag) hence the name PowR-ply. Someone (Dr Todd Larsen?) wrote about it in a collector's magazine. Harry also made a handful of single action fly reels like the one pictured, built with the aid of a lathe in the back room of Bill Chapelle's T&S Tackle shop in San Francisco. Most - out of a total of maybe a dozen, max - were given to angling friends. Harry was also developing Scott's glass fly rods at that time, switching from Lamiglas to blanks on his own mandrels rolled by California Tackle Company. I joined him in 1974 and our idea when incorporating the Scott PowR-ply Company was to use the fly rods to finance reel production. But the market for big game fly reels was small, the cost to get started was high, and graphite as a rod material was just emerging. Seeing the possibility for long light line graphite rods, we focused on them and grew rapidly as a rod company. The reels never got past the late prototype stage.

I bought the one Jim Adams of Adams Angling Books had just to get the feel of it and see one up close. I can’t add much more than what has been said. It worked as described and was a heavy, beefy reel which is hard to envision without it being on a rod. I should have pics somewhere but its been a while. It certainly was fun to have such an interesting part of angling history in my hands. I always though it somewhat ironic that PowrPly originally referred to a fly reel and not Scott’s rods.

verhampshire,

Even if there is a chance to get one of them, the price tag is likely to be scary...!