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ABU Enthusiasts' Websites
Ulf Tingstrom
"if
the idea ever crosses your mind to tune up an Ambassadeur of yours to be a real
screamer....call Ulf in Europe for custom parts or a complete tuned Ambassadeur."
Reelman's Swedish ABU site
http://reelman.se/
Rikk's
ANTIKA SVENSKA
FISKERULLAR
http://www.abu-record.se/index.html
Daniel Skupien's Website -
http://dskup.server101.com/SwedishReels/
(Books)
Simon's MrAmbassadeur -
http://www.mrambassadeur.com/index.html
(Books)
Swedish Collecting Site (Uffe's
Club) -
http://www.fiskejournalen.se/rullen/
Danish Tackle Collecting Club
http://www.grejsamler.dk/english-intro.htm
Marco's Reeltown -
http://www.reelstown.com/abu.htm
ABUFreak's New (2008) ABU Website
www.dfigge.altes-angelgeraet.de
Jussie's Swedish Reels
http://www.fishybiz.se/index.htm
Mikael's ABU History -
http://abu-record.com
Silver Toby -
http://www.silvertoby.dk/index.htm
Bo / ABUBO -
http://groups.msn.com/ABU-DK
Mattais's Personal site -
http://web.comhem.se/~u53304570/fiske/index.htm
Wolfgang's Vintage reels
www.altes-angelgeraet.de
Lennart Widmark's Swedish
Website
http://www.acc.umu.se/~widmark/lwfishxl.html
Kyo's Abumania (perservere, great
pics)
http://www.abu-mania.com/
Fishing with ABU (Japanese site)
http://www.geocities.com/fishingwithabu/
Take's Reel Room
http://www5c.biglobe.ne.jp/~take300/index.htm
EJGay's (unattended)
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http://www.geocities.com/heartland/lane/4448/models.html
Ken @ Kalama Reels -
www.kalama.com/~k-bjstulgis
William Brown's
Trip to Mongolia
Catching the fabled Hucho Taimen Salmon.
Earl's Antique Fishing Tackle
http://www.fishingcollectables.com/
Sasha's ABU Cardinal & Dam Reel
Site
http://www.saschas-sammler-homepage.de/
Minature Morrum Ambassadeur
http://www.keysteps.com/mini-rods-reels/AbuGarcia.htm
Kob Pat's ABU
website from Thailand
Hookless
Custom Ambassadeur Reel Building
USA
Jerry Foran
ABU and Garcia in USA have had a long co-operative
relationship. The only hitch was when Mitchell reels from France were being
already marked by Garcia in USA, so ABU had to look for the different
organization to market its fine ABU Cardinal Spinning reels. This was done by by
Zebco in USA.
This fine
site will appeal to many collectors who also collect Mitchell as well as ABU.
Wallace Carney labours hard with the same passion as I do here,
to create this high quality and continually developing website. Like this site,
it is not a commercial entity, despite looking like one, and it is also a Not
for Profit, benefit to all interested collectors creation. Please support his
endeavours to share.
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Keith Wichmann
New
Importer/Sole Agent for Everol
USA
(251) 648-3210
World's Finest Fishing Reels
since 1958
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 Your
Grandson's Next Reel
This link is here because of the my
love of the ABU Admiral made by Everol in Italy 49 years ago. They
have exactly the same demanding ideals today as A.B.Urfabriken did
in their first 50 years! Keith has recently taken over as the sole
importer of Everol into the USA. Please consider these big game
reels. I have one and will be getting more to fill the size gap
where ABU no longer sells. |
Web Forums
Dr Todd's BlogSpot
"History of Fishing"
The
Whitefish Press
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sportfisher/messages
http://orcaonline.org/ipw-web/bulletin/bb
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Please
give serious consideration to joining this wonderful organization.
It does cost a little more for overseas postage (out of USA) but I
personally feel the helpful nature of all the voluntary workers, who
respond quickly to questions/request, as well as access to the
wonderful network of like minded collectors, make it very worthwhile
to join ORCA. |
ABU Books Essential ABU Reading
Catalogues
Catalogs however, like
Tight lines and Napp och Nytt, are inexpensive for recent editions and
blindingly expensive for the oldest and rarest editions. I have 1966 to
present for the N&N but only about one third of the number for the Tight
Lines.
I am presently trying to
research how many countries ABU was marketed in via their famous catalogs. I
would appreciate anyone who could forward details that may help me. I am
looking for names, dates and maybe a scanned image of the front page.
These free current edition catalogs are a wonderful resource for the beginning
fisher. The most expensive first edition N&N I saw changed hands recently for
nearly one thousand dollars at auction. Unfortunately 2005 will be the last of
these catalogs.
A replacement yearly catalog will
be produced to target the present 4500 products.
ABU Garcia Yearbooks are also another source of information from the sixties
which incidentally I've just discovered. Anyone wanting to swap/trade some for
Tight Lines or Napp och Nytt (identical catalog but only Swedish version)?
ABU Related Websites
These websites here and above comprise of
ABU friendly, Commercial productions, as well as private Not For Profit
private productions developed with endless hours of loving care and
dedication to the task of promoting the classic ABU fishing equipment.
We are continually
expanding and improving our range of services and facilities.
- A computerised job tracking and bar code scanning system
underpins our quality control procedures, making it easy to
track, control & prioritise the large volumes of work
travelling through our plant.
- We have an excellent reputation in the industry and with
our customers. (References can be provided).
- Supplier to the SA defence industry
- Recognised as an innovative and successful small company,
evidenced by recognition in several business awards.
- We are confident that our customers find our company easy
to deal with, flexible and credible in its delivery of good
customer service and product quality.
- On-site Laboratory capable of testing both the processing
solutions and the coatings.
-Quality
Assured to AS/NZS ISO 9001:2000.
Feel free to have a browse through the site & check out some
of what we can do. If you can't find the service you're
looking for, please e-mail us. Chances are that we already
have a process to match your needs. If we haven't - we can
certainly point you in the right direction or work with you
to identify the solution to your needs.
Unusual enquiries to
Murray Murray Pyman
[murray@aclassmetal.com.au] are quite welcome!
Trusted
service for my ABU Chroming and Gilding jobs! Wayne Real |
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AClass
Metal Finishers.
See my Gilded lures/reels.
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I really want to find out more about the range of
languages that the ABU catalogs were printed in, and their titles. It would be
interesting to track the start of ABU from being a local Swedish family firm to
being a global force even penetrating the iron curtain. Scan of catalogs covers
from different countries would be greatly appreciated and also any relevant date
of production information.