What made the original ugly stik's so good in their time??

[finga]

Just a question that's been on my empty mind....
And compared to todays standards what do you reckon???
Cheers Scott

[Noelm]

I guess in their day they were very "cutting edge" and quality control was very high, so, duds were not common, as compared to todays massed produced in some third world Country where materials and standards are very slack to say the least, I think that had a lot to do with it, I still have a couple of really old Uglies still in use today.

[DR]

i agree, as they were cutting edge at the time , i would say that materials were of a lot higher quality & more attention was probably paid to quality control as well.
I had 2 custom built originals at the market yesterday & couldn't get an offer..

[finga]

Thanks guys.
I brought an 8' 6-81/2 kg spin stik yesterday.
My brother thought I was bonkers for buying the old heap of crap until I bent the bugger near in half...
But it hasn't weathered and has never been broken....just really old looking because of the flacking coating.
Another project I thought
It's already stripped and a light sanding has been done ready to recoat.
If I remember you used to assemble them didn't you DR??
What were they coated with???

What can I use to recoat it??
I was thinking about some acrylic laquer top coat with the flex aid in it.
Cheers and ta fella's

[Trader1]

What made them so good was the fast taper, sensitive tip and increadible streangth for the weight. There were solid bibre glass rods that were just as strong but very heavy. Ugly's were only solid in the tip and this allowed the tip to be fairly thin and strong. The butt was hollow but still strong.

[DR]

Thanks guys.
I brought an 8' 6-81/2 kg spin stik yesterday.
My brother thought I was bonkers for buying the old heap of crap until I bent the bugger near in half...
But it hasn't weathered and has never been broken....just really old looking because of the flacking coating.
Another project I thought
It's already stripped and a light sanding has been done ready to recoat.
If I remember you used to assemble them didn't you DR??
What were they coated with???

What can I use to recoat it??
I was thinking about some acrylic laquer top coat with the flex aid in it.
Cheers and ta fella's

finga, when i did do a full coat over the whole blank, i just used the same epoxy that i did the guides with. as i brushed it i used to hit it with a flame so that you could do a whole blank with only a couple of dips of the brush in the epoxy. all you need to do is get a minuscule amount on the blank to give it a nice gloss.