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Dog, gotta love the intensity.....love all the old vises..... i just bought three tickets in the British Casting for Recovery Raffle for the Law Vise, over on Foxy Joe's site. We can see his ( THE Dette House) house from our bedroom window in Roscoe.....he on the north side of the Willow, and we on the south bank.....prolly 3 or 4 hundred yards apart.
They're gonna draw the winning ticket for that vise on Jan. 1st or whenever all tickets have been sold, whichever comes first.
The tickets are 10 Pounds each.....which is $15. and change. i tell ya, if i win.....i'll never buy another vise............

Narco,

I noticed the warm yellowish color of the lines and figured they were silk (no, not Sylk). I just picked up a nice little J.W. Young Pridex for my 4 wgt boo rod that is screaming to be lined with a silk line. I'm thinking of a Phoenix line in a 4 wgt double taper.

REE

I have fished a silk line on a glass rod and on a carbon rod. Never had any problems, the casting is nice because the line is thinner than a plastic line. After a few years I had problems with the silkline (it was broken on a fish just after the loop) and also the coating was off ( it was a phoenix line) and the silklines are to expensive. I fish with millends now.

Greeting

I think we've got off topic now, but I am refinishing a couple of vintage silk lines now. It's not difficult just time consuming. I have cast (not fished) them on a graphite and they cast just fine. The thing I found was they make a lot more noise than the plastic (kinda like the sharkskin) but that may change when they are fully dressed. The other thing is wear on line guides. They are known to cause wear on the old rods and old guides but I don't know at what rate this will happen (or if it will) on modern materials.



Vicki

Ron Eagle Elk wrote:Narco,

I noticed the warm yellowish color of the lines and figured they were silk (no, not Sylk). I just picked up a nice little J.W. Young Pridex for my 4 wgt boo rod that is screaming to be lined with a silk line. I'm thinking of a Phoenix line in a 4 wgt double taper.

REE

Ron, all of my lines are old, some have been unused, I could not afford one of the new lines.

kanutripr wrote:I think we've got off topic now, but I am refinishing a couple of vintage silk lines now. It's not difficult just time consuming. I have cast (not fished) them on a graphite and they cast just fine. The thing I found was they make a lot more noise than the plastic (kinda like the sharkskin) but that may change when they are fully dressed. The other thing is wear on line guides. They are known to cause wear on the old rods and old guides but I don't know at what rate this will happen (or if it will) on modern materials.



Vicki

Vicki, I love the sound of the silk line going through the guides. It's like using an old Heddon 125 reel or even an old Pflueger. I have found that sound contributes to the experience.

Yeah the sound doesn't bother me, actually I think it's kinda cool just because I know there's heritage there! I'm hoping the new boo rod I'm building (from a pre-built blank, Christmas present from the hubby) will actually fish the line I've got. Not sure though, its a D I think and we've made some minor adjustments to the rod so it may be more of a 4/5 weight.

Vicki

Dog, you got chops....."Good Ears."