Coxon Aerial in action.

[Badger1]

Thought you guys might appreciate these photos of a 4spoke Coxon Aerial in use with a new Andrew Davis - FWK Wallis Tribute.

[Mark]

A lovely reel there Badger. :thumb:

[Badger1]

Give any collectors a worry :-). Got to use them!

[Caractacus Potts]

Wowee, Badger ! That first photo is something else, I love it !

Which river is it, just out of interest ?

[Snape]

Dare I ask whether the Coxon is genuine or a replica?

EDIT: Just read your other posts and have now seen your Facebook page and have answered my own question.

[Nobby]

Are they no good then, Paul? You'd think he'd have only bothered with decent stuff.

[Vole]

If century-old Ebonite can cope with the tension of barbel-tightened nylon, spread over just eight pillars, why are makers not still using it? Nicer to the touch than metal, on a January day.

Or to put it another way - that reel was designed in the days of silk lines that don't stretch under tension and were [supposed to be] wound off and dried after each trip, so they shouldn't shrink when drying. Isn't a lot being asked of Lady Luck to risk it with mono, notorious for bursting the spools of the first generation of reels with which it was used?

I know if Fate ever took me to a charity shop wherein lay a Coxon, I'd use it, but I'd scour ebay for a spool of terylene ("Green Butterfly", for preference) and limit my ambitions to chub!
I admire your determination to use, rather than collect, Badger, but cowardly bits of me clench apprehensively when I look at those photos. (Tasty rod, too, by the way!)

[Snape]

If century-old Ebonite can cope with the tension of barbel-tightened nylon, spread over just eight pillars, why are makers not still using it? Nicer to the touch than metal, on a January day.

Or to put it another way - that reel was designed in the days of silk lines that don't stretch under tension and were [supposed to be] wound off and dried after each trip, so they shouldn't shrink when drying. Isn't a lot being asked of Lady Luck to risk it with mono, notorious for bursting the spools of the first generation of reels with which it was used?

I know if Fate ever took me to a charity shop wherein lay a Coxon, I'd use it, but I'd scour ebay for a spool of terylene ("Green Butterfly", for preference) and limit my ambitions to chub!
I admire your determination to use, rather than collect, Badger, but cowardly bits of me clench apprehensively when I look at those photos. (Tasty rod, too, by the way!)

An interesting point. I would like to do a test to see what the force applied to the pillars is when the rod is pull around to it test curve loading. I wouldn't think it would be that great....

[Vole]

...but it would be multiplied by the number of turns.

[Nobby]

I thought that too, Vole. But Weyfarer pointed out, on another forum, that a large fish cannot be reeled in with a centrepin without pumping the rod and he suggested this would mean that the line would not be under as much tension as first imagined when it went onto the reel.


I did ocurr to me that the tension would be relayed to the line when next you pumped upwards and surely that would affect the recently spooled line too?