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[AntiqueB]

Are vintage rods much different from new ones?

 

[raingarden]

Are vintage rods much different from new ones?

Oh, oh. Finally something I know a little bit about.

Yes. Most are now made of carbon fiber. From the 1950's into the 1970's they were mostly of fiberglass. Prior to that they were split bamboo or steel. In the eighteenth and ninteenth century they were mostly made of selected hardwoods.

 

[AntiqueB]

Wow! I don't think I've ever seen one that wasn't made of something like metal.

 

[kcan2]

Here are a couple of antique-y items I own: a vintage phone bench, and boy scout manuals belonging to my papa and dad. My papa was an Eagle scout right before WWII, so his book (left) is well-worn and the front cover has actually come detached. I would love to know the decade the phone bench came out of, but cannot find any inscriptions on it anywhere.

 

[itsasmallfarm]

Are vintage rods much different from new ones?

depends on the quality i think, some are well made, others feel real cheap.

but there is a different feel to the reels, they may not have the same ball bearing numbers or that silky smooth reeling action. but there is just something about them that feels right.

i find it funny people i know will spend hundreds of dollars (sure a few spend more than a grand) on a good rod and reel set up, and its only for walleye, and they freak out when they get a pike on the line, don't want to hurt there set up.

then there is me who is using a vintage reel worth a dollar or two at a garage sale and maybe a 5 dollar rod. and i can catch plenty of fish if not more then some of them with hundreds of dollars worth of gear.

 

[Artichoke Lover]

I’ve picked up some new old books this week

 

[Anime2lover]

How's this for an antique? My little brother's were playing In our back woods and suddenly came running out with this saw that's almost as long as they are tall. Don't know what kind it is.

 

[HomesteaderWife]

@Anime2lover Looks like they've found an old one-man crosscut saw!

The button on the back says Warranted Superior, an old tool brand:

 

[Anime2lover]

@Anime2lover Looks like they've found an old one-man crosscut saw!

Cool. We were confused about what it came from, couldn't figure it out. We live on what used to be part of a large old farm so we thought it might have been from some old farm equipment.

 

[HomesteaderWife]

@Anime2lover - Your saw is most likely from the early 1900s, probably around 1911 judging by the medallion with their company name and the keystone shape in the middle. How cool is that! That saw is over a hundred years old likely. They have just found a treasure. Makes me wonder how many trees they cut up with that old piece.

From this website - - -
"Later Disston made WS medallions, have a circle of dots, star at the 3 and 9 o'clock position and with or without the eagle in the middle, then a keystone was put in the middle instead of an eagle. The 1906 catalog shows the eagle while the 1911 has the keystone showing on their replacements medallions. The 1914, and 1923 catalog shows nothing in the center (no eagle nor keystone)

This medallion is then from approx 1911. By then most small guys were now secondary lines of the big guys (Disston, Atkins, Bishop and Simonds)"