This is the reel that got me started in collecting, so I'd like to share it. It's everything that ya just don't see in a reel these days. Heavy all metal construction...excellent chrome plating...and top notch fit and function. I think the Rocket was a home run for Pflueger. 8)
Cool reel Mo. It looks like you are fishing it. I would make it a shelf queen. Dominick
Nice rocket mo :D
Nice way to start a collection, Mo! That's one purty reel and the red line is a nice accent!
No-wonder you started collecting after that one!
Joe
That's beautiful Mo.."great piece.....Bill
Pretty one Mo. I just started cleaning up a few of my knuckle busters. The chrome was good then.
Beautiful pflueger Mo! They definitely don't make em like that anymore....
I grew up fishing the Rockets at the jetties in the Savannah River; trout, spot tail bass, sheep head, big black drum etc. Quality reels. The local hardware stores even carried the worm gears and pawls for the level wind back then.
Thanks for the compliments folks! Although we always had a few old Penns on the farm...I never really saw any Pfluegers from this era until I started collecting. Now I even have some newer Pfluegers I fish with...very well made reels. After getting this Rocket it was a quest...I had the Pflueger Flu! ;) :D ;D 8)
;D nice looking reels mo
beautiful reel Mo, yours looks like new the chrome reflection looks like a mirror
I have one Pfleuger Akron, it has a serial number 1893 so I thought it would be better on the shelf than fishing with it, its a small reel and since I got it it stays on one of the shelfs on my office, the other reel is a Bronson Green Hornet 2200
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Mo, do you know when abouts the Rocket was manufactured?
Steelfish, I got a Akron too. I believe the 1893(also on mine and others I've looked at) is part of the model name/number, not a serial #.
Gfish
Quote from: Gfish on March 06, 2017, 10:07:32 PM
.........is part of the model name/number, not a serial #.
Gfish
soo, to the trash it goes
naa, just kidding. ;D ;D ;D thanks for the info
Mo, When I see reels like this Rocket, I lose interest in aluminium frames and spools. I don`t think the latest custom jobs will last as well on the outside as they will on the inside.
Beautiful reel!
Basto
pflueger acron 1893 I think it was made in 1916 or later, there was 4 models all had different coloured handle, I stand correcting but I think they were Green black white & brown, cheers don.
Quote from: Donnyboat on March 07, 2017, 01:46:52 AM
pflueger acron 1893 I think it was made in 1916 or later, there was 4 models all had different coloured handle, I stand correcting but I think they were Green black white & brown, cheers don.
the handles on mine are green with white (marbling)
Quote from: thorhammer on March 03, 2017, 10:56:37 AM
The chrome was good then.
I don't know about Pflueger, but Penn chrome was best when they first plated the brass with nickel, then plated chrome over the nickel. They did this for only a short time in the early sixties (I think, Ted (Maxed Out) once commented on this, I think in reference to the chrome on one of the special senators). As you might imagine, adding a nickel plating was more costly, so I think they ditched this in a few years, but the chrome on the reels made during this time appears to have been poured on extra-thick and lustrous.
Sid
I thought the Akron`s were made of German silver & nicle coated, cheers don.