#Orvis bamboo fly rod database full#

Orvis employs 7 people by the end of 1941.

Omar Needham employed as rodmaker though ~1941.

Green bag, leather tube, optional bright ferrule

Wes Jordan begins employment as rod shop superintendent in 1940.

Hallie Galaise, the last of Mary Orvis Marbury's fly tiers, retained producing Orvis Superfine Flies.

Olive bag, Peerless tube with brown (white?) and black paper label Green bag, Radyite aluminum tube w/female-threaded cap

Leather tube, retailed by Clapp & Treat, optional bright ferrules & reel seat Rocky Mountain - 13/64 & 10/64 waisted ferrules

1969 Factory Production Records: Rod Repair Prices - January 1969.

1969 Factory Production Records: Bamboo Inventory - 9/28/68.

1969 Factory Production Records: Fiscal Year 1968 Comparative Bamboo Rod Sales.

1969 Factory Production Records: Fiscal Year 1968 Bamboo Rod Sales.

1969 Factory Production Records: Fiscal Year 1967 Bamboo Rod Sales (partial).

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Miscellaneous Serialized Rods (partial).

Fly Fishing School Rods - S prefix (partial).

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With Top Ten Tapers you can now fish your own custom made bamboo rod for the price of mid-level graphite rod. Originals of these rods in good condition currently sell for 3,500 to beyond 5,000. $450 + USPS Priority Mail shipping/insurance.Post-1939 Orvis Bamboo Fishing Rod Production-a reference for collectors and enthusiasts The rods these replicate are considered by anglers to be in the top ten of all bamboo rods ever manufactured. Original bag and Wright & McGill-style tube are included.ДЇor more information, or to purchase this rod, please contact us using the form at the bottom of the page. The grip is of a round, mild cigar profile.

It is straight, however, and the Phillipson-style ferrules fit tightly. There are a few light plier marks on the butt/mid ferrule and a 2' clear over wrap above the ferrule on one tip.

#Orvis bamboo fly rod database full#

This rod is original, full length and sound, but not perfect by any means. Arend ahead of the black bakelite grip check, 'Arend Rod-Englewood, Colorado' on two flats. The rod is wrapped B&W jasper tipped yellow as were many Arends and has a bright aluminum 'no roc' Phillipson-style d/l reel seat which is marked 'P.W. Bill Arend was a contemporary of Goodwin Granger and competed against him in casting competitions in the Denver area. Smaller trout rods for lighter lines are extremely scarce. Most, however, were 8 1/2 to 9 foot rods. Arend of Englewood, CO is a very rare example.ДЄrend and his successors made bamboo rods from about 1920 well into the 1970s. This circa 1950s 7'7' 3/2 trout rod by P.W.