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(vintagerods.com) BUY A PIECE OF FISHING TACKLE HISTORY Smyrna, Delaware, 19977, USA. Phone 302-250-1362. Contact us by email . *Closing by year end 2025. Discounts offered. Email Only. $50 Minimum. Tish 302-250-1362 or tish.borchardt@yahoo.com |
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SPECIAL Kits priced $19.95, both with natural and colored blanks. Buy two, pay only $9.92 for 2nd kit. All still with high quality American-made components, namely the last of the original Conolon® blanks and Varmac ("Jewelry of Fishing Tackle") reel seats. |
BACKGROUND
In 1982 the Conolon® rod manufacturing plant in Santa Ana, California, was shut down and rod production was taken off-shore. We acquired the rod component inventory on hand at the time and it is being offered here for sale. ABOUT CONOLON®. During the heyday of American fishing tackle manufacture, Conolon® was one of the premier fiberglass blank manufacturers. Conolon® blanks were chosen by major rod manufacturers for their premier rods; Garcia for the Lee Wulff line of fly rods and the Payne Rod Company for their in-house built glass rods. Conolon® was also the choice of the best custom builders, Russ Peak and Vince Cummings among them. |
UNIQUE FEATURE OF THESE BLANKS Most of the blanks we acquired were only partially finished. We got them after fabrication and sanding but before the normal painting step that all commercial blanks are subjected to. Blanks in this stage of manufacture cannot be purchased; we just lucked out to get them at this stage because ---- Conolon® is the registered trademark of the Abu Garcia Corporation. |