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

his "Brook Trout" model

and a space for hackle pliers

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

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