Just a short note to let you know about my new website, "Old Japanese Fishing Reels".
The site was launched a couple of weeks ago and is still in the development stage. The home page is up and running along with the start of the reels image database. Other items, articles etc will be added every few days until is is complete.
The aim of this website is to provide collectors of Japanese fixed spool reels (yes there are a few of us out there) with an online source of reference material including quality reel images, technical specifications, parts schematics, maintenance information and so on.
If you have any interesting information, reel photographs that are not in the image database, schematics, maitenance tips, catologues or even unusual stories then I will almost certainly be interested in them for the site. The email address to contact me on or to send information to is
All comments about the website are welcome good
or bad 
. The URL for the website is http://orcaonline.org/images/pixel.gif?gone
Anyway I hope you like the website, best regards from Sunny Bournemouth, UK.