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So I carefully removed all three sections to find a rather nice Swiftdale, 11 feet, 3 sections, split cane throughout, quite thin in the tip and a quite unusually long handle at 22 ", maybe a good rod to chase them golden Crucians ! It will need straightening up and probably turning, but no delamination as far as I could tell and the ferrules all seemed Ok, no knocks and they just fitted tight ! I reckon its had a new set of rings re-whipped at some time. So a good project to look forward to. Some pictures:
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If anyone has got one I'd be interested to see what you think.
Oh and I guess you are wondering what price we agreed, well we didn't, he gave it to me happy to see it go to a good home and be brought back to life to fight another day !! This I must say was despite some efforts to give him a fair price but he wouldn't take anything except eventually, after rummaging through my float tube, he asked for a few crow quill floats which I shall gladly make for him.
If anyone has any historical knowledge of The Swiftdale and information on the original whippings etc I'd be most grateful.