I came across a pair of older St Croix surf spinning rods today and one is in what I would say is fair condition, it's in need of a reel seat and some cleaning, but all in all, not that bad. (The fixed side reel seat hood is split). The other one is pretty rough, but they were at one time twins. (The other one is missing about 3" off the tip and has barely any handle left at all).
My question is how can I determine the age of a St Croix rod?
It's a 9' 6" 2 piece spinning rod, with cork handle, aluminum w/chromed bronze hooded reel seat, has plain stainless guides, and has an oval bronze colored logo with red outline. The center ferule is gold anodized machined aluminum, and the blank is black with burgundy and gold trimmed wraps.
The cork is a little dry and it does have a few rod holder inpressions.
To make it really nice I would need to remove the original cork and reel seat and find a suitable replacement seat and build a new cork handle.
My guess was that this is probably late 50's to early 60's, since it came with a fairly clean Langley Spin Drift Model 860 reel in red wrinkle finish. If the reel is the same era as the rod, and I seem to remember reading that Zebco bought Langley around 1961? It would be at least prior to the Langley purchase.
I have seen quite a few older St Croix rods, but this one looks much older, mostly since I've never come across this style logo before.
I found an ad page listed on eBay stating it was from 1961,
(http://orcaonline.org/images/pixel.gif ... dZViewItem). but this ad shows the later logo which I am used to seeing.
I have several wood handle St. Croix rods, that I think were from the early seventies that use te same freehand block print logo as in the ad for sale on eBay.
Is a rod like this worth spending the time on, as far as repairing, or should I leave it alone, or are they simply too common?
The logo on mine reads: :
"Genuine Double Power ST CROIX Corporation, Park Falls, Wisconsin 1006 SMD"
Could a rod like this worth spending some time on, as far as repairing, or should I just leave it the way it is, or are they too common?
