im looking for harrington rawhide rods they have a unique diamond pattern to the blank and they are brown or copper colored they were big on the west coast of the US i can find very little info on them if you are willing to sell one or if you have any info on them that would be great
Im pretty sure harringtons and harnells have always been black and finished.
im looking for harrington rawhide rods they have a unique diamond pattern to the blank and they are brown or copper colored they were big on the west coast of the US i can find very little info on them if you are willing to sell one or if you have any info on them that would be great
RAWHIDE I DON'T THINK WAS MADE BY HARNELL !
I HAVE ONLY SEEN THREE . THIS ONE I WRAPPED FOR A FRIEND.
30 TO 50LBS CLASS.
I THINK IS FOR SALE ?
THE OTHER I OWN , IS A 7'10 " BAIT CAST. ( NOT FOR SALE )
AN THE OTHER THE GUY WILL NOT SALE.
GOOD LUCK
STEVE
CATCH A BIGUN
STEVE.BAIT.TWO@GMAIL.COM
Google is your friend. http://www.google.com/search?q=harrington+rawhide+rod&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
"""I have to rack my brain to come up with some of this old info but I am old and experienced and there is a lot of it in there somewhere..............
First, - I knew these men personally. Milt Stevens owned FEATHERWEIGHT and he came up with the "three-finger" spring loaded ferrule chuck and the ferrules to go with it. From that came the model 6-A casting rod handle and all of the additions to the line, all centered on that chuck. I sold untold thousands of model 6-AP and others.
Milt saw that Schoff, Fenwick, Lamiglas and others were getting rich making rod blanks. He saw no need to start making blanks when he had a good buddy who had designed a considerable stable of already successful blank models. So he went to see his long time friend, John Harrington, a man I knew before I met Stevens.
John made rods with white fiberglass cloth and painted them black. He was famous for black rod blanks and black rods But it was a tough, hard black paint. I made many casting rods on these old designs. Darn good blanks. And big game rods too. And I used to buy black blanks from John and sell them. 7, 8 and 9 foot saltwater spinning rods as I remember.
All Harrington had to do to get Featherweight in the blank biz was to choose the fiberglass fabric. Like all of us Milt Stevens was cheap. So they decided that they would use a dark-brown-maroon cloth and then not smooth the blanks in a centerless grinder, an expensive process costing more than the blank, - but to just coat them, put on the model tag and sell them that way. So they did.
The name: RAWHIDE """
those are the honey blank fenwicks. very hard to find but my buddy has one in a 50 pound class that he will sell for a price.