Next to handmade bamboo rods are customs fishing reels, "different" fishing reels, so to say.....

Sometimes, it's the same bamboo rodmaker who makes them. I the gatherings I attended, handmade fly fishing reels are always exposed.

I also reported on some custom reels made by the following people:

Markus Rohrbach: custom fly fishing reels from Switzerland, who started out to make a few gadgets for friends and ended up selling some of his very limited reels to Japan.
Markus website is here: (www.flyfishingdesign.de)

Wolfhard Schultz, from Germany who started out making replica of old reels with a direct mentoring of Joe Janciuras who lives in the USA, Wolfhard has been gradually trying to reproduce Edward vom Hofe reels.

Waldemar Novak www.flyfishingdesign.de, beautiful S-shaped reels.

Dallari fly fishing reels: a made a webpage for this incredible Italian artisan who made custom fishing reels in wood

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