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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) - 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.

 

 

 

Keith Wichmann


 New Importer/Sole Agent for Everol

USA (251) 648-3210
World's Finest Fishing Reels
since 1958

 

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"

Whitefish PressThe Whitefish Press

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sportfisher/messages

http://www.oldfishingstuff.com/forum/index.php

http://orcaonline.org/ipw-web/bulletin/bb

 

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.

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Unusual enquiries  to

Murray  Murray Pyman [murray@aclassmetal.com.au] are quite welcome!


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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.

 

 

 
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