Reel Models

 Abumatic REELS

 

Model name                                     Abumatic 60

Maker/designer                                Karl Nurmse

Production dates                               1957

Features 

Did  you know? ....that Abu thought of selling the Abumatics under the name ABU Viking but unfortunately a Viking reel already existed at the time. So they renamed it to Abu-matic. However a first announcement of the company in 1957 to dealers announces the Abu Viking. Below as proof , you find a photograph of this Abumatic 60 in an announcement sourced from Rullfakta website. Thanks Marcel for pointing this out to me.

 

Regarding this Viking reel above left , my friend Len Borgstrom has these  insights.

The Viking reel was never made by ABU. There were exact copies made in Japan. They were so exactly copied that the ABUMATIC 60 housing had a hole, which was used on the prototype to secure the spool. On the final model that hole had no function. The spool was secured in another way, but the hole was still copied. Re. ABUMATIC 82, I think that the reason for a higher price is that there was not a big volume made of that particular model. Len

Copying....Highest form of compliment I guess!

More Abumatic details here

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Please be patient and enjoy as they appear and do contribute!

 

If you have any others not listed above, that are unneeded  or doubles in your collection and are available for a reasonable fee, I would be very pleased to hear from you.