Hardy Zenith Fly Reel - rare first model Vintage Fly Tackle Blued nickel silver winding checks

Blued nickel silver winding checks with attached hook keeper

For sale here is an Ari 't Hart F1 Traun fly reel and spare spool in excellent++ condition

The first tip is 1 3/4" short and the second tip has been broken off at the ferrule

81" and the pillar length is 1/07"

One tip has a very slight set

Hardy Zenith Fly Reel - rare first model Vintage Fly Tackle Blued nickel silver winding checksFor sale here is a Hardy Zenith wide drum reel. LHW or RHW. Good overall condition cosmetically and excellent condition mechanically. The Zenith was part of Hardy's Lightweight Series of reels. This was one of two wide drum Lightweight models made in the early to late 1960s, the Husky being the other. Both were 3 3 8" diameter. Spool width 1 3 16". The reel weighs 6 3 4 oz. Original ribbed alloy foot is unmolested. This is the rare first model with