What a gift from a friend started...

[Mike N]

A few years ago Jim S. sent me an unexpected gift in the mail, a vintage wooden line spooler:




The spooler piqued my interest in thread spools, which, with the help of John Etchieson and a few others, has turned into this:






It’s a neat, new and reasonably priced vintage fishing collectible to search for between reel acquisitions

[wrong99]

Wow. I love seeing that stuff. Thanks, Mike, for sharing. Most impressive.
Mark

[RonG]

Hey Mike, that's a nice collection. Whenever you get so many that you can't lift them, that's when you know you're done. So, keep looking. There's more treasurers out there.

[john elder]

Very nice, Mike! They did such an elaborate job with labels on spools that they are just a natural for collecting! And i think we could do a whole thread just on ‘gifts from Jim S!’

[wrong99]

Yes. Jim gifted me a nice reel a couple months ago. Out of the blue.

[reelsmith.]

Very nice Mike.

That collection came a long way in a short period of time.

Dean.

[Mike N]

Thanks, John, Ron, Dean & Mark,

This collecting thing of of ours is all about sharing information.

Now, in these strange times & between collecting our beloved vintage reels we should really appreciate and collect these hooks & flies and silk lines and paper ephemera, etc. For the first time in 3 decades I feel like I’m beginning to really understand vintage tackle and what fishermen in those days considered essential in their wooden tackle box.




Mike N.