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A "ringer" as in a dead-ringer for the pre-war Model 1594 or1595 Pflueger Medalist reels with the metal line guide in left-hand retrieve. Very few were actually made and their crazy prices now reflect that fact. The 1495 designation on the reel shown here means it was right-hand retrieve originally.



The good news here is that you can still create one with a little help. This is an early 1495 1/2 Medalist that a fellow helped me set up for one of my 6-weight quad rods. "One Pfoot" was a business created back in the 60s (by Bill Franke) to help more-modern (post-1950s) Pflueger Medalist reels better fit the reel seats of the more-refined (i.e. not cheap) bamboo rods (English and otherwise) being made. Along the way, the owner developed the parts needed to re-create the all-metal reels of the 1930s, and in either left-hand or right-hand retrieve. Sadly, Bill is long gone now, but some other good folks have seemingly picked up the business. Dan Hill owned it when I had this reel converted.



The quaint term for this conversion is "hot-rodding" a Medalist. These are both '60s era 1494 & 1495 reels that have been converted. Counter-weights and fancy handles were never available from the original factory in Akron, Ohio.



They balance my older bamboo rods rods perfectly and... I think they look good too.