Leonard Model 39-5 Bamboo Fly Rod 7'6" 2/2 #5

Leonard Model 39-5 Bamboo Fly Rod 7'6" 2/2 #5An HL Leonard model 39 5 bamboo fly rod, 7'6", 2 piece, 2 tip, and built for a #5 line. Serial #1936 with a manufacture date of 1974. 3. 8 ounces. Excellent used condition with some modest cosmetic cracking at the ferrule wraps and wear to the inner snake guides. Medium action with what feels to me like a faster butt and more moderate tips. Blonde oven temper cane done in a three up node pattern. The wraps are 326 red with additional edges of green

Please note that we are requesting a bank wire or physical check for payment upon purchase of this reel

It shows no signs of having been handled

This is finely crafted vise from one of the pioneers of the modern fly-tying vise industry

P Hermann Maker" is stamped on the foot

Original ivory handle spins freely

Most of the original leading remains on the reel

an ivorine handle and a smooth aluminum foot

There is an occasional glue seam showing adjacent to the nodes though none are open

Shortened description due to rod selling before it was listed

For sale here is a one-piece hexagonal bamboo rod built by Sam Carlson in the late 1950s after he purchased the Thomas Rod Company

The cane broke at the base of the tip-top

No repairs or unoriginal parts exist