Well you win some & you miss some, I managed to get onto a Red Senator for AU $ 50.00 including postage to Western Australia, from New South Wales, it looked fairly rough with a ugly wood handle, Mike Currie is going to send before & after picks, I also brought another red 114 with a rod last week for Au $60.00, I will pick it up on Tuesday, but then I see a 9/0 came up today the man had it for sale @ AU $ 0.4 so I rang him, he rang back sorry mate I just sold it with quite a bit of fishing gear for AU $ 40.00, but I have been having a good run really, hope everyone is catching fish & keeping well, leave some there for me, cheers Don.
Bad luck missing the $40 bargain this morning Don, like you said, you can't win them all (although you have been having your fair share of wins with senators ;) :))
Here are the photos of the 114H with the custom handle before you cleaned it up;
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(http://alantani.com/gallery/25/7995_09_09_18_3_39_09_25421467.jpeg)
(http://alantani.com/gallery/25/7995_09_09_18_3_40_46_254231002.jpeg)
And after you tidied it up - both the reel and the handle came up well!
(http://alantani.com/gallery/25/7995_09_09_18_3_40_13_25422590.jpeg)
(http://alantani.com/gallery/25/7995_09_09_18_3_41_40_25424874.jpeg)
(http://alantani.com/gallery/25/7995_09_09_18_3_43_06_25425500.jpeg)
Nice work.
Mike
Yes Good thanks again Mike, your a true champion, a good good friend, concidering we like about 3,000 miles apart & have never met in person, that`s AHANA for you, getting back to the reel handle, it was a good shape when I first arrived, it had the finger grooves ground out fairly good, I made them a bit deeper, that created more work as the sanding took a lot longer, then I gave it 3 coats of varnish, & concidering I was placing some two pack epoxy, on some rods, I also place it on the reel handle as well. 3 coats in all, I am happy with it now, cheers Don.