Replacement Parts for Vintage and New PFLUEGER MEDALIST Reels
The "Classic" One-Pfoot
To commemorate a truly American Classic, "The Pflueger Medalist Reel", we are launching our new product, the Classic One-Pfoot, on the 4th of July this year. This beautifully machined reel foot is a very near copy of the original die cast foot seen on the earliest Medalists. Pflueger afficionados will recognize the grace and function of these first original reel feet.
DON'T FORGET! We now produce Aluminum and Brass Replacement Pfeet for prewar and postwar J.W. Young Reels
The One-Pfoot Story
Here’s the product that started it all. While rod making in the 1980s, we received a number of customer requests to reconfigure the reel seat on a favorite fly rod so that it would accommodate a treasured Medalist reel. After doing countless reel seat modifications, we discovered that a simple reel foot conversion would be a much easier and a less costly remedy. When first offered to the fly fishing market the One-Pfoot conversion kit became an instant hit with Pflueger Medalist owners. The One-Pfoot conversion kit was first produced and sold in small quantities. The rise of CNC machining in the 80s and 90s made it possible for us to make larger runs of this quality product to meet the public’s demand for One-Pfoot once again. One-Pfoot is made in our small shop here in New Hampshire where every detail of this product is checked and rechecked. One-Pfoot components are made from the highest grade aluminum (T6061 Grade) and stainless steel (303) to insure that the One-Pfoot will last as long as Granddad’s favorite Medalist.
Ernest Schwiebert
Trout, Volume II
Introducing New Products
Ever eager to satisfy the needs of the Medalist owner, One-Pfoot has added to its line of Medalist upgrade products. These are the replacement parts that over the years, you, the public have asked for!We are glad to be able to meet the demand of the growing number of Medalist users and collectors. We strive to keep these venerable old classics in the best condition possible.
We are very excited about this new section of our web site called “Pfine Tuning Your Pflueger.” The purpose of this new addition will be to pass along many of the fine tuning tricks, and helpful hints, that we have discovered over the years of our tinkering and tuning Pflueger Medalist reels. It is our hope that this relay of information will make your Medalist a more workable and pleasurable reel to fish.
When manufacturing our new replacement parts, we test fit these new parts into dozens of different Medalist reels. This testing ensures good workable fits across a wide spectrum of reels—both old and new. The Pflueger Medalist is a stamped frame reel that has gone through many location and tooling changes throughout its long and proud history. Despite these many changes, we have found that most parts are interchangeable in this workhorse of a fly reel. As our good Canadian friend Istvan Nemenyi once stated “the Medalist is the Kalashnikov of reels.”
We have also learned that there can be subtle differences between reels. Sometimes these differences call for a minor adjustment or “tweaking” to make the reel perform to its fullest. Most adjustments, we have found, are rather easy fixes that can be performed at home or in the shop with the simplest of tools. Look for and read this “Pfine Tuning Your Pflueger” section on our different One-Pfoot parts pages.
We invite our friends and customers to e-mail us with other tips and hints that will enhance the pleasure of fishing the great Pflueger Medalist.