Never Before Seen (Until Now) Penn Prototype!

[Gfish]

Cooool! The pot lids, are they the spool flanges or the side-plate rings, or both?

[foakes]

The Phillips Head Screws are interesting --

Unless the head-plate was removed so we reel mechanics could see details -- it is not going to convince.

Best, Fred

[Maxed Out]

 It cannot be real. The shift lever is at 11oclock, and gear train is at 7 oclock. This leaves no place for internal components to fit. Definitely a phony

[Swami805]

The reel isn't that big, it's just a really small can of soup, table and chair

[conchydong]

Is it April fools month?
Neat conversation piece anyway as it got a lot of people stirred up.
Al Capone's safe? Geraldo would have said something about that as he is a boater and possible fishermen.

[Rivverrat]

It cannot be real. The shift lever is at 11oclock, and gear train is at 5oclock. This leaves no place for internal components to fit. Definitely a phony

  I have no where the knowledge of Penn reels that most of you have but this reel does have several things going on that dont jive with a Penn reel, prototype or what ever . Especially when Penn had on hand better dimensioned stock to build such a reel of this size. The spool for instance had a lot of time spent on it for it to not fit.

Oooops I answered my own prior question... Jeff

[Cuttyhunker]

Cool gizmo, but no lugs.

[Cor]

The rings, posts, and stand have a white appearance kinda like brushed aluminum.  Something about the stand looks like it was made from a chunk of aluminum, but maybe just my imagination. Pretty big gap between the spool & rings.  I'll look forward to hearing what the experts here have to say.

I am no Penn expert other then having fished them 50 years back and It does not look "right" to me.
The screws in the posts look too small & not countersunk and I've never seen Phillips heads.
You can see machining marks on the foot and also handle.
Sideplates....na!

Does not change the fact that it is interesting.

I am also waiting for one of the experts to comment.

[ReelFishingProblems]

Spyderman,

Cool display and fun story.
Some good craftsmanship there, and clearly too much time, but you know what they say about idle hands.

[Sharkb8]

Did you make that cool  looking reel the side plates are made out of wood

Kim

[MarkT]

It's wood painted in black and silver!

[Maxed Out]

 It doesn't take an "expert" to see that this reel is an oxy-moron.

The eccentric should be straight up from the bridge. Take a look, if the eccentric was way off kilter like this 50/0, the Jack could not function at all. I laid a jack on this Penn to give a visual of where the jack would be on this 50/0. Sorry to pop everyones bubble. We know it has no internals

[Reeltyme]

A great piece any way you look at it. My best guess based on using your photos, is that it measures about 8 3/4" high and 7" wide across the plates and spool. A true big boy. On looking at the seat, the thickness of the foot would require a special built rod seat to accept the reel. That would never fit on any rod seat I ever saw. There are no harness rings or rod harness rings either. I can assume that the Philip head screws are replacements during the restoration process or building process?

[Spyderman]

Cooool! The pot lids, are they the spool flanges or the side-plate rings, or both?

The spool flanges.

[Spyderman]

The reel isn't that big, it's just a really small can of soup, table and chair

You've figured it out, I didn't build the reel, I built the small can of soup, table and the chair.