During all my years of collecting, Simon has been the biggest influence in my collecting life and I wish to thank him for that very much. That's the day I knew if I wanted to collect them, I had to learn about them.
It was a mutt! It had the wrong style handle, wrong type pillar screws for that year’s model, and so on. He was very kind to me as he explained what was wrong with a 5000 I found in the field. In 1995, about the time I realized I wanted to collect these reels seriously, I met Simon Shimomura at the Houston, Texas NFLCC show. I used a Mitchell 300 until I was about thirteen or fourteen, when my father decided it was time for me to take the next step- an Ambassadeur 5000! From then on, it would be an Ambassadeur that went on all my fishing trips. One of my father’s favorite reels was the Ambassadeur 6000. In the 1960s and 70s, Galveston, Texas was where my family spent its free time. As a young boy, my father frequently took me fishing. My introduction to collecting tackle started with lures and quickly spread to reels. My name is Fred and I've collected Ambassadeur reels since late 1994. Original/Reproductions: Plates, Decals, Handles, etc. Later 46/56/66 palming reels addressed this small glitch, but not the first run like yours.Table of Contents (Click on links) 5000 De Luxe #223: Where Have You Been? If you already are aware of this kewl, but others reading the thread may not catch this, and wonder why their reel won't engage. It will not go there till you put a screwdriver in, and flip the reel into cast mode, so the pin can fit inside the crescent.
Note that little crescent-shaped hole on the bottom of the brake plate. The thumb bar activation pin will not work otherwise. Oh yeah: shouting now: If and when you take the reel down for mods or fix, you need to engage the cast function before you put the tranny side on the frame. The handle would sell for 10 something, maybe more, star the same, and if the plates are not all "boat-rashed", should fetch you 30.00 the pair, or more. If you want to fish the reel, and make some coin down the road, remove the handle, star, and sideplates, and replace with scuzzy ones from other reels. The sideplates for your reel are long gone John in black, and rapidly going away in grey, and red. From the factory.įrom a warranty center, the number would have a big dremel X across it, or totally obliterated by dremel, brass showing through. So replacement later on frames would be bare. That's because the factory branded them as they made the reels. Very few replacement frames for a small run of reels bore the s/n.
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