Kushner, Morris -- "Exelereme" Bamboo Rod - 6'5 2/2 5wt 11'3" Assembled spool with bronze arbour--with

Assembled spool with bronze arbour--with the original VomHofe-style grub screw through the arbor to the spindle-shaft to allow centering adjustment of the spool in the cage

Up-locking reel seat with engraved sliding ring over a mortised walnut spacer

Perfect for a 4" Hardy Wide Drum Perfect

Don't regret not picking up this fine rod from one of the greatest and most influential makers of all time

Perfectly knurled nickel silver oil cap

Kushner, Morris -- "Exelereme" Bamboo Rod - 6'5 2/2 5wt 11'3" Assembled spool with bronze arbour--withFor sale here is a very rare Morris Kushner "Exelereme" bamboo rod 6 feet 5 inches, 2 2 for a 5 weight line. Excellent+ and all original condition. Parabolic and very powerful medium fast action. Kushner rods are very scarce as he made less than 200 rods (some say ~100) in his Michigan shop from the early 1950's until his death in 1973. Kushner was a Russian immigrant who had a metal working operation not far from the Paul Young Rod Co. shop. He built