Used Reel Photo’s Project
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I have a strange request.
I have a little project that requires me to photo a trashed reel. It needs to look like it has been trough the proverbial “wars” and completely abused and disrespected.
It is a black anodised saltwater reel with a few stainless steel parts.
Other than dragging it behind the car for a block or two, then leaving it in a tub of salty water, I am out of ideas. Besides that would make it look like I trashed it, and that’s not quite the look I am going for.
Just want it well used and abused, to the extreme…
Any ideas guys??
Some of the things they do in the guitar making business to simulate “relic’d guitars are:
1. beat it with a chain
2. beat it with a ring of keys
3. Use a high speed buffing wheel to wear off paint in places
4. throw gravel, sand at it
5. vinegar, vinegar and more vinegar.I think I would throw it in a sealed barrel with some of the stuff Dave describes (sand, chains, etc.), and then either roll it down a hill or find a way to roll it behind the car.
That’s funny, I would pay to hear that.
The more I think of it, the random bag of junk would do the trick.
I was going to suggest throwing it your dryer. Just make sure the better half isnt home when you do that
Im kind of rough on gear unintentionally. Not to brag but I racked up 5 warranty replaced rods in 09′ and 2 in 08′. Four of which were in a single occurrence totaling up to a huge lesson learned and a huge repair bill at my local fly shop.
Through my reel lessons here are the ones that work for me;
put it in the back of a pickup truck as you drive around town (a once white shimano stratic)
leave it in the rod holder of a boat (out of balanced lamson)
run over it with a car or 6 (Orvis rocky mountain large arbor cast aluminum reel that i left on my camper shell of my truck and survived with only surface scratches)
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