Diamondback Fly blanks

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Re: Diamondback Fly blanks

Posted by: Bill Hickey (---.nycap.res.rr.com)

Date: February 10, 2020 07:34AM

These would be the latest generation of Diamondback, about 2-4 years old. Cortland sold off the "Diamondback Brand" to a former employee/investors, they tried to make a go at it. Rods/Blanks were manufactured overseas. Other than the name, no affiliation to the old Vermont Diamondback Company. I did test cast some of the Glass offerings, decent stuff. The rumor mill was that they had the taper spec's for the original Diamondback stuff, but really not known if they tried to copy it. I do know where the mandrels wound up for the original Diamondback stuff, Mike McFarland got all that plus the manufacturing equipment.

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