A Paul H. Young Co. rod owner for 30 years

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Re: A Paul H. Young Co. rod owner for 30 years

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Quash: You qualify as the true monomaniac on forum of OCD sufferers. I admire your dedication to Young's rods, and you're work to preserve the company's history. And I ALWAYS enjoy reading your posts.

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Re: A Paul H. Young Co. rod owner for 30 years

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To have taken over a storied rod like that and to not only have retained it for so long, but also to have fished it throughout, does you great credit quash.

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Re: A Paul H. Young Co. rod owner for 30 years

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Congratulations on keeping the rod in excellent condition.
Robert

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Re: A Paul H. Young Co. rod owner for 30 years

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I am in the process of building a Martha Marie, everything's complete with the exception of the grip and guide placement. On the original rod shown at the beginning of this topic, can anyone offer any feedback on the type of thread,nylon/silk used and the color for this rod? Also did Paul Young make his own reel seat hardware? I am curious about that although I would assume he did.

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Re: A Paul H. Young Co. rod owner for 30 years

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I believe that the original thread was a beige silk, Holland 319. Paul Young was not a machinist and did not make his own hardware.* He didn't need to do so because, in the mid-20th century, hundreds of machine shops were located in the Detroit area. In between orders from the car companies, these machine shops were available to fabricate anything Paul Young wanted. However, Bob Summers was (and is) an excellent machinist. He had not been working at the PHY shop for very long before he started to share the idea that rod hardware could be produced in-house. I don't know at what point Bob may have started to do this work for the Paul H. Young Co.

* EDIT: Right after World War II, August O. Pernack set up a ferrule making operation for Paul Young, so ferrules were made in house for a few years. The two men had a falling out, and Young largely switched to Super-Z ferrules in the early 1950s.
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Re: A Paul H. Young Co. rod owner for 30 years

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Thank you for sharing this milestone anniversary with all of us here, and for adding some of the stories written between you and this rod and with Mr. Beall before you. Keepers of the Flame(d), indeed.

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Re: A Paul H. Young Co. rod owner for 30 years

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Mr. Beall write many letters with Gary Howells and they are in the University of Montana library, Bud Lilly collection. I forgot which Howells rods he owned but will check my records and see if I can find out. Joe Beelart may have better notes than I do.

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Re: A Paul H. Young Co. rod owner for 30 years

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Thanks for the information, Robert. Always great to learn more about my favorite rod builder.

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Re: A Paul H. Young Co. rod owner for 30 years

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Booman2 wrote:
12/04/21 21:01
Mr. Beall write many letters with Gary Howells and they are in the University of Montana library, Bud Lilly collection. I forgot which Howells rods he owned but will check my records and see if I can find out. Joe Beelart may have better notes than I do.
The letter (circa 1974) from George Beall to Gary Howells in Joe Beelart's book mentions his order for an 8'6" 4oz. rod with screwlock for a 4/5wt line (Kingfisher No. 2 was Beall's anticipated line for it).

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