Have searched with no luck.
Looks like an old Roddy from the 60's...
Best,
Fred
Thanks Fred
Fred is, as usual, right on the money, take a look at this link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFgnn3PAw30
Mmmm Yup!
Got one somewhere 😎
Although, it might be a little later old Rodac, too. ;) :
Good find, Tommy --
Roddy was a company started by Jerry & Rod Bernstein in the mid 50's.
They built rods (pretty decent rods) in Gardena, California. Had a rod wrapping factory there in So-Cal.
Also assembled reels from parts manufactured in Japan. So they were considered made in the USA on the boxes -- although frames were marked Japan. Mid to lower quality reels -- good rods though -- particularly some of their ocean rods.
Company sold to an employee rod wrapper named Bernie Robinson in the late 50's or very early 60's.
Robinson also started a company called Rodac as a side business -- utilizing the same products and logos.
There were issues with the sale -- and Robinson was protecting his company and employees from a name infringement threatened lawsuit.
Roddy was subsequently sold to Berkley, who in turn sold it to Daiwa a few years later.
My first spinning reel was a Roddy in 1963. I was 10 or 11. Bought at Long's Drug Store. Broke the stem on a camping trip when a toolbox in the back of a pickup truck slid into it. I tried to repair it by drilling two holes and trying to wire it together with 12 guage copper wire. This was not successful -- so the reel was replaced when I could save up some more money.
I have a few old Roddy's out in the bins. No Rodac's to my memory, though.
Best,
Fred
Best,
Fred
I don't know anything about their reels, but Roddy blanks were very good in their day. As good or better than Harnell, some would say. They had a distinctive glass pattern and brown color. One of the Roddy founders learned the ropes as a Harnell employee.
-steve
I have some old Roddys, Budaheads,powermasters, BR's. They still fetch a fair amount of money for the right models and they fish well too. Nice old well built rods
Somewhere I have very clean Berkley that looks just like that.
I will see if I can find it over the weekend.
Best,
Jonathan
Most Roddy spinners were made by Olympic or Daiwa, as were many of the Daisy-Heddons. There are a lot of similarities between some of the Daisy-Heddons & Roddys if one looks closely, and both claimed to be assembled in the USA. The Rodac I posted has a bent leg at the foot connection, as do many of the Daisy-Heddons, but the reel in question has a straight leg like a lot of Roddys. The Heddon Spin Matics and Roddy Gyros are basically the same reel, and the Daisy-Heddon 230 and Roddy 820A & 830 have the same body style with a main gear hump.
Back to the reel in question, I'm pretty sure the reel it's a Roddy 910A.