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Fenwick stainless steel butts
Posted by:
Kevin Bogan
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Date: October 30, 2013 09:36AM
Does any one have any old Fenwick butts, or rods? I think the butts were stainless/with brass chrome seats. Re: Fenwick stainless steel butts
Posted by:
Tom Kirkman
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Date: October 30, 2013 11:56AM
I believe they were aluminum, but not anodized. This left your hands with a black residue every time you handled one. Vic Cutter would know. By 1986, if not earlier, they had moved to Aftco butts.
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Posted by:
Vic Cutter
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Date: October 30, 2013 03:23PM
The original Fenwick Trolling butts were turned Hickory with Varmac Chrome Brass reel seats in the 1960's. By the 1970's Fenwick had changed to a stainless cored molded plastic covered butt with Varmac reel seat and then to a swagged stainless steel butt with Varmac r/s. These swagged SS butt were discontinued in the early 1980's in favor of the AFTCO butt with Varmac r/s. When AFTCO introduced their Unibutt, Fenwick began to use it exclusively until they stopped the production of IGFA Class trolling rods. Re: Fenwick stainless steel butts
Posted by:
Kevin Bogan
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Date: October 31, 2013 10:20AM
thanks for the replies! Sorry, only registered users may post in this forum.
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