REEL SEATS AND GRIPS

As illustrated here on this page, our reel seats are of several varieties.

The skeletal cork bodied seat (PBS) is a down locking unit with

nickel-silver sliding band and pocket. A companion seat is the PBSW,

using like fittings, but mounted on an oil treated mahogany or walnut barrel.

These sliding band-seats are flatted to accomodate the reel base and are made

 in two sizes: the #750 and the #700. The #750 is generally used on 2 pc. rods

of over 7' where a sliding band reel seat is desired. The #700, a somewhat

smaller version, is generally used on rod of 7' and under. Although not necessarily

firm, it has been our policy, over time, to use screw-locking seats on all our

three-piece rods of 8' and over and on two-piece rods of 7'6" and longer. Our

screw-locking seats are either (PF) uplocking, and (PB) down locking. These

seats are comprised of an aluminum threade body and a nickel-silver pocket

all mounted on an oil treated black walnut barrel. Cork grips are completely

constructed of a on the "stick" from high grade cork and  individually hand shaped. 

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