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Conventional and Bait Casting Reel Rebuild Tutorials and Questions => Other Reel Tutorials and Questions => Topic started by: sharkman on August 29, 2017, 11:48:01 PM

Title: Shakespeare Deuce FK
Post by: sharkman on August 29, 2017, 11:48:01 PM
Just obtained green fk. Is the green rare all the one on the internet are chrome or silver colored.
Title: Re: Shakespeare Deuce FK
Post by: akfish on August 30, 2017, 12:34:37 AM
You can't retire quite yet: Green is a common Shakespeare color...
Title: Re: Shakespeare Deuce FK
Post by: sharkman on August 30, 2017, 01:08:05 AM
Dang just realized there was more than one deuce. The ones coming up were 1905 but when I finally got my glasses out and noticed 1910 boom green was everywhere
Title: Re: Shakespeare Deuce FK
Post by: oc1 on August 30, 2017, 08:30:09 AM
I've always wondered if the green is anodizing, or what.  Is it aluminum?
-steve
Title: Re: Shakespeare Deuce FK
Post by: sharkman on August 30, 2017, 10:39:07 AM
It looks like anodizing. There are some scratches in the color that are down to the metal and no rust. The metal looks like aluminum.  The spool has what seems to be aluminum sides with maybe steel or pot metal center.
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