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 reelsmith |
Lets see your gizmos, gadgets, paraphernalia and contraptions... |
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Posts: 525 06/26/2008 12:19 |
Here are some of my favorites....
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greendrake ll |
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Posts: 758 06/26/2008 12:25 |
Neat looking collectables!!! Thanks for sharing. Is the Hardy Dry Fly Oiler wood or mottled plastic to resemble wood?
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reelsmith |
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Posts: 526 06/26/2008 13:08 |
greendrake ll wrote: Thanks !
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uniphasian |
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Posts: 1839 06/26/2008 13:34 Moderator |
My Favorites:
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wvangler |
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Posts: 292 06/26/2008 14:36 |
A few chunks of my classic accoutrements
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reelsmith |
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Posts: 527 06/26/2008 14:58 |
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uniphasian |
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Posts: 1840 06/26/2008 16:09 Moderator |
Thanks, Dean. Perfect edits...
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Posts: 513 06/26/2008 18:54 |
Been a long time since I saw one of those. I must say that you fastidious at keeping the water clean... 
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Posts: 63 06/26/2008 19:01 |
What wonderful stuff!! Thanks for showing. I've got some items like that, too, but I'm certainly not going to try to compete with your fabulous
photography. If you want to see 'um, you'll have to visit.
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quashnet |
PHY paraphernalia | #9 | ||
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Posts: 2019 06/27/2008 01:08 Moderatus Muscae |
Two Paul H. Young Co. Trik-Kutters, and a PHY line and leader gauge. Both tools were available at least as early as the 1930's. They are shown with the
materials they were designed to be used with - a packaged PHY Spanish gut leader, and a PHY dry fly (spentwing Adams Egg Sac pattern, circa 1942). I use a
Trik-Kutter and the leader gauge for making up leaders and tippets.
The "Trik-Kup," a PHY folding drinking cup, shown with its catalog description. 
I would like to find a tin of Young's "Preen" fly and line dressing, as well as Young's "Liquid Preen," a dry fly floatant that came in a bottle with a buckskin harness with buttonhole to hang on one's jacket or fly vest.
Quashnet's Paul H. Young Rod Database has photos and descriptions of 290 PHY Co. rods, plus catalogs, accessories,
etc. Thank you to all who continue to send me PHY rod photos and info.
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Posts: 189 01/06/1940 16:15 Moderatrix |
Mine covers both of my passions ~ felines 'n' fishing.......
No comments about the Cat Gut leaders ~ it was a gift from a dear friend! 
"Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got 'till it's gone?"
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MontyMontana |
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Posts: 293 06/27/2008 20:33 |
No comments about the Cat Gut leaders ~ it was a gift from a dear friend!
Sic friend...... I will try and find the photo of my ex father-in-law fighting his cat over a 35 lb. king salmon on the bow of his boat....6 lb. Siamese cat won and claimed the salmon as his ...father -in-law got 13 stitches....only fish he caught that day. Monty Montana
Your Signature ... I fish via our criminal justice system..."Catch and release"
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Bamboo Adict |
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Posts: 139 06/28/2008 08:39 |
All of these things are neat, and I can remember wanting one of the cups from Paul Young. Oh hell I still want one. Does anyone know where I can find one?
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Shoeless Joe |
The Fye Box | #13 | ||
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Posts: 794 06/29/2008 16:15 Moderator |
Posted with apologies, cause as opposed to being a gizmo or a gadget, this is more akin to a contraption.
Back in 1951, with input from the 'Dean of American Flyfishing', George Harvey, Ronald Fye concocted what would became known as the Fye Box. Some nine years later, Rex Richardson would purchase Fye's company (and patent) and rename the works, The Richardson Chest Box Company. Purchased from an estate sale, I was told that this particular box belonged to a Montana fly-tier who worked at Dan Bailey's shop ... interspersed among the original owner's creations are a few of Franz Potts' flies. 
Integral leader wallet 
Catgut soaking compartment w/felt pads 
Fye Box Hollidaysburg, PA Pat. Pend. 
P-51D (Mustang) Nose Art S/N# 44-11661 334th FS/4th FG |
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DrLogik |
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Posts: 1461 06/29/2008 19:01 |
Being a "Holidaysburg" version I think this is an original Fye Box and not one made by Rex Richardson when he purchased the company from Ron Fye.
Man, that is a nice addition to ANY fly fishing collection. There are those in Japan that would probably pay good money for that box. I have a couple early
Fye's but they are both made by Rex right after he purchased from Ron and still have the "Fye" name on them.
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Shoeless Joe |
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Posts: 796 06/29/2008 20:11 Moderator |
DrLogik wrote: Yes, it is an original ... the 'Pat. Pend'(ing) stamped into the bottom places this box right at the beginning of Fye's chest box-building career. Upon further review, it appears as though this box can be dated between 24-Oct-1947 and sometime early in 1951 ... here's the patent (#2,539,302) link:http://www.google.com/patents?id=cAdmAAAAEBAJ&pg=PA1&dq=the+fye+box&source=gbs_selected_pages&cad=0_1#PPA1,M1
P-51D (Mustang) Nose Art S/N# 44-11661 334th FS/4th FG
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reelsmith |
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Posts: 529 06/29/2008 20:21 |
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Bamboo Adict |
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Posts: 141 06/30/2008 12:59 |
Dean/Reelsmith, to drop names, Dan & Kelly say you are the man to talk to if I want to get into collecting old fly tying tools and other gadgets. Now that
I am retired I spend a lot of time in my fly tying room/man cave that we built just before retirement and want more things to look at.
Thanks in advance, David |
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Larry Swearingen |
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Posts: 368 06/30/2008 14:48 |
Better watch out David.
You'll have to go back to work. 
Larry Swearingen Fort Wayne, IN New Hoosier |
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reelsmith |
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Posts: 530 06/30/2008 15:18 |
Bamboo Adict wrote:
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Posts: 143 07/01/2008 08:27 |
Thanks Dean,
I will see Dan & Kelly at the Camp Sherman show in a couple of weeks. We will be camping together there and Kelly and I are sharing our birthday up there (where just a couple of days apart) of course she will be 30 something and I will be 60 but I can still get out and fish. Any way I think they are going to get me started on a few things. And Larry hell no I ain't going back to work. As long as I can still row a drift boat I can make a little cash to find gadgets and have a good friend that started out a client that loves to collect Hardy reels and stuff and swap for trips. (Thank god he and a few bamboo builders don't know they could go down the river for nothing just for the company) but don't tell them. David |
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