Hardy Reels "The Evans' Tapes" - A Collector's Guide to Hardy Reels 8'9" First Edition - First Printing

First Edition - First Printing

Spalding & Bros

blued nickel silver cap and ring reel seat with a highly figured mortised tiger maple spacer

Rod weighs 2 1/8 oz

and original tube with brass fittings

Hardy Reels "The Evans' Tapes" - A Collector's Guide to Hardy Reels 8'9" First Edition - First PrintingIn 2001, the respected Hardy reel collector and acknowledged expert, the late Mr. Ted Evans and his son, David, produced a series of 5 video tapes outlining the history and evolution of many of Hardy Brothers' famous reels. In 2011, Brian Taylor was privileged and honoured to have worked with Ted and David to transfer these tapes to DVD. The 5 videos are now contained on a 2 DVD set. They did some minimal quality enhancement of the data and edited out