Any idea?

[the_reel_doc]

Have searched with no luck.

[foakes]

Looks like an old Roddy from the 60's...

Best,

Fred

[the_reel_doc]

Thanks Fred

[Tiddlerbasher]

Fred is, as usual, right on the money, take a look at this link:

[theswimmer]

Mmmm Yup!
Got one somewhere 😎

[Midway Tommy]

Although, it might be a little later old Rodac, too.   :

[foakes]

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

[oc1]

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

[Swami805]

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

[theswimmer]

Somewhere I have very clean Berkley that looks just like that.
I will see if I can find it over the weekend.
Best,
Jonathan

[Midway Tommy]

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.