Are you kidding me?! HARDY GUYS spare spool deal.

[PEETZcanada]

I just committed and bought a spare HARDY Bros. Spool from a well known member of this site "Hardy Guy". I received the spool via Canada Postal shortly after 10am. Once I had a few tasks out of the way, I grabbed the spool and started playing.

A buddy challenged me to build a hybrid reel some time back shortly after acquiring all the assets of PEETZ Outdoors. So about an hour ago 130 pm or so after doing some eyeballing and visualization, I dumped out this modified spool. I reformed the back plate of it to sit nicely and more similar looking to the PEETZ brass back plate that helps create the spool.

I got everything aligned and clicking and spinning nicely. Tomorrow I'll work on a custom shaft to better fit the rest of the drag components and button it up and get it ready to fish.

I'd show you a video clip of it sounding out, but this site doesn't have that functionality yet. Maybe I'll post it to Instagram or Facebook later.

Too easy.

 

[PEETZcanada]

Here she is, proof of concept 100% functional, 98% Complete. Just finalizing a few dimensions on the center drum and bending up a custom line guard. Otherwise fishable as she sits.

 

[John Ingram]

That

Here she is, proof of concept 100% functional, 98% Complete. Just finalizing a few dimensions on the center drum and bending up a custom line guard. Otherwise fishable as she sits.

what would you call it ???? a Peez....arty reel Or maybe just Party

 

[PEETZcanada]

That

what would you call it ???? a Peez....arty reel Or maybe just Party

Bbut, its not called HARTY...its HARDY. It is also a one off that I will never produce in the future other than by special request and the person requesting has a HARDY spool to do it. Just playing around a bit, who knows where things will go.

 

[PEETZcanada]

And there she was. 100% complete one off concept.

After a crazy morning in emergency getting my finger cut off and sewn up from the second knuckle. Lost the whole tip. Anyway I digress.

After the hospital I went back to PEETZ to work. I was going to continue with what I was doing before my injury on the punch press, but quickly remembered the surgeon said to keep my hand high for a few days...so I shifted gears and finished my day with the help of Bill Hooson. The end result is nothing short of magnificent.