You know you're a Reel-Head when......

[Caranx]

Okay, I'll start off with a couple:

1) Your favorite tool is an Alan Tani handle nut wrench, and you inscribe/engrave your name on it.
2) You build your own grease gun like Alan's.

Okay, one more
3) Your wash basin has a drain screen to catch the little parts from going down the drain.

I'll put one up for Alan:
You experiment with a dishwasher to clean an old cruddy reel!!!

I can't wait to hear what you all have to say!

[Dr. Jekyll - AKA MeL B]

maybe you can also add these 2;

1. you are a member of this site very wonderful site

2. you constantly log in to this site everyday.

tight lines...

[Keta]

Purchasing a reel just to tear it apart and see how it's put together. 

Taking apart several reels and seeing what parts are interchangeable, even between different manufactures.  You can get in trouble fast doing this though.

[Nuvole]

Taking apart several reels and seeing what parts are interchangeable, even between different manufactures.  You can get in trouble fast doing this though.

x1

[joel8080]

When you replace your Wedding Picture on the dresser with a  framed Penn reel poster.

[Norcal Pescador]

Purchasing a reel just to tear it apart and see how it's put together. 

Or buying a reel just because you're going through withdrawals cuz you haven't serviced a reel in a while.

[Makule]

The guys who do the last two have a very severe case.

[Bill B]

You have more reels in the gun safe than guns...

When you are at the shooting range you talk about fishing...

You hide your Penn Catalog next to the Victoria Secret's Catalog...

You plan your next business trip around when the next season opens...

You get caught trying to hide your last reel purchase from your wife...

[Alto Mare]

You know you're a reel-head when you're doing a job estimate and end up with a sketch of a custom reel that you would like to build .

[Snagged2]

You put more into a reel,, than the owner is willing to pay..

You observe a sick reel your buddy is using on a trip, and,try and figure out how you can convince him to let you take it apart on the boat..

After, you have all your own reels at "perfect",,, you keep messing with them...

[broadway]

When your girlfriend asks how the guys on Alan Tani are
When your mother asks if Alan Tani.com sells gift certificates for my birthday
When you sit in a lawyers office all day thinking about how to maximize a reel's capabilities when you really have a lot at stake and should be listening...ooops! 

The list could go on, but all of these things happened this week to me

Thanks for a fun topic!
Dom

[wallacewt]

you know your a reel head when you start giving advice,dunno what your talkin about to guys that do

[BMITCH]

When you start to quote job cost higher to afford that reel and or parts on eBay that you MUST have!!

[seaeagle2]

when you look at this website several times a day, and check ebay every day for frame kits, high speed gears, etc for reels that are going to be used basically three days a year for the annual halibut fishing trip.

[wascallywabit]

Wow!!! I'm sicker than I thought.   If these are all symptoms then I must have a bad case. I already have the wrench, the grease gun, spend more money on parts and upgrades than the reels are worth, and when the wife just picked up the UPS delivery yesterday of two new reels I had just purchased, I had to tell her that they were just more reel parts. And the scary part is I've been at this for less than a year. Not sure if I'll find a cure before I run out of money!

Oh, and your hands constantly smell like reel grease.