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Record 2000 boxed Casting Reel
..with yellow spacers...very rare
Please enjoy what Mikael has to tell us about his Grandfather's love of fishing ABU and appreciate his generosity of spirit in sharing such a significant reel with all us fans around the world!
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The reel.
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Nice genuine Ruby bearing and a
spiral engraving. The
inscription says: "Record 2000
A.B. Urfabriken -Svängsta-" All
engraved in capital letters |
Some yellowish/greenish
marblized plastic material |
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Original Kuggfett. |
Some spare parts. The wrench is
a Pflueger "Little giant" made
in the USA. Oil bottle is "ABU
Reel oil" |
The
box is original, looks like it's
really built to suit the
reel . It has two compartments. |
Granddad left me
all his fishing gear. There is some more stuff I'm sure of it.
You know up here in the Nordic countries ABU is THE brand for
fishing equipment. I have four casting rods(all ABU), one
cardinal and two Ambassadeurs which I purchased for myself and
my son. Anyway he left me about two cubic meters of fly
tying equipment and other fishing gear. I'm gonna lay it out for
you and take a pictures of it to share here . It'll be a
days work
you
bet.
I might add, Granddad or by his name Karl Östman
never fished in the ocean. He was strictly for inland fishing. I
think he was very specific about things.
About my grandad I can say this: He lived and breathed for
fishing. When we were out driving, and drove past a lake you
could always see his eyes light up as if he saw some good spot
or opportunity. In his later days he were mostly into fly
fishing.
I really can't imagine him going into a shop to pick up the top of the line Ambassadeur. He was a very modest man, even in the jungle of fly fishing jewellery. He never bought the expensive "milled from a single billet" reels - rods or anything like that, even though he could easily afford it in his later days. He spent a lot on top quality feathers though. I think he won the Record 2000 at a competition. Maybe he was for once dazzled by the great looks and feel of it.
Grandad was born in Härjedalen county in north of Sweden. They
were very poor. At the age of ten he was out in the woods with
his father, poaching moose just to get food on the table.
Fishing and hunting was probably more of a necessity for these
people. He began working in the forest at the age of twelve.
They raised the lake so his family and others lost their
farmland. Others lost their belongings to alcohol and poker.
Granddad were always very moderate with alcohol and would always
warn me about card games.
One thing I remember about my granddad was that he never
bragged, but he always caught fish even then others didn't. He
never talked while fishing, he could sit for hours and never say
a word, just looking over the lake. Then he came back from moose
hunt I would always ask him if he shot some, he would always
answer "Nah - someone else did" Granddad probably shot more
moose than the entire hunting team together, before he was
twenty! He was really a true woodsman.
He was mostly a trout and grayling fisherman, all his rods were
in the range of 8 1/2 to 10 foot. He never fished for salmon. We
did do a lot of ice fishing for trout, bass, and röding ( a
variety of trout which is greenish/redish with silver streaked
fins, deep red meat) we also caught some "lake" or burbot in
english. The burbot looks like a cross between cod and eel. He
always ate the liver of it which looked like an alien, pinkish
with tentacles Haha! The rest he fed the dogs. Pike made him
really angry cause it had to many bones and ate the precious
fish.
Sorry I can't tell you so much about the reel. You
got some background on my granddad though.
Thanks again Mikael for allowing this gem to come to my collection and be shared here! It is so easy to document the features of a reel, but it is this personal infomation about the owner/user which is important in my mind! I look forward to sharing more in future...
Daniel Skupien's opinion of this reel in Vintage Fishing Reels of Sweden is here
If you have very unique or rare models that you wish to display here please contact me wayne@realsreels.com
If you have any others listed below, that are unneeded or doubles in your collection and are available for a reasonable fee, I would be very pleased to hear from you. I cannot afford to collect Mint, in-box or unused reels at present, until my children have completed their education.