Duckett wrote: ↑Mon Jan 07, 2019 10:48 pm
Lovely looking set up that!
My, admittedly cursory and very limited, reading suggests that Pezon et Michel made rods long before they first started making the reels in the 1940s. Even then, they made the reels under licence.
All information welcome - that's part of it, isn't it? Thank you. So, even more impressive, I think, that they made a manual/automatic bail arm long before the others did... and that is working perfectly! So smooth and silent both, manual and automatic. Lovely! That is also for the anti-reverse. Where all the other reels have a pin that blocks a gear at one point, here there is a backwards tensioning spring around the axle under the rotor that engages at EVERY position. Much like the modern reels do. As mentioned not up to ultimate force but really quite strong and way enough for modern lines and fine tackle... I like that really much.