Czech rod - Petr Pavel

Hi list,
I displayed Czech rod "LOV" made in 1950 in the big casting show in
Livingston this summer. Some of you said the rod was not bad, some of of you
said the rod was good. Length 8"5´, Line No 7. Light salmon rod.

Originaly the rod was made very roughly, that means, there were remarkable
meassurable differences between tip strips. The rod came to me with
delaminated
tip.  I retapered tip strips   just to get reasonably eaqual strips.
This is the taper meassured over varnish after restoring.
1´              0,067
5               0,096
10             0,113
15             0,128
20             0,138
25             0,159
30             0,171
35             0,179
40             0,191
45             0,216
48             0,231
50 1/2       male end
53             0,267
55             0,269
60             0,279
65             0,293
70             0,302
75             0,319
80             0,325
85             0,337
89             0,390
Guides - from tip:  7-    16-     27-    39 1/2-       54 1/2-    71 1/2-
dark green thread looks almost black.  Intermediates - 1´ distance, 4
turns - this probably makes the rod No. 7
Sorry for being so late. The bigest problem was to convert mm to inches
Peter