Does anyone have any info on the new line of Gary Loomis blanks coming to the market?

Walt Davenport
"Roadhouse Rods"

Hah, we must have been posting at the same time. Tom you can delete my post if you want.

Scott Sheets
www.smsrods.com

yes please spill some beans if anyone knows anything! would like to know what sorta stuff he is releasing, casting, spinning fly??

any surf 1 piece?

Ok from the other post'

I talked to one of my buddies who is on the Shimano Pro Staff and I guess Gary is working with a company called North Fork Composites. Sort of reminiscent of LCI isn't it. I got that same e-mail today, sort of interested in seeing the flyer. He tells me that Shimano owns the name so I don't think you will see anything that says Loomis on the blanks. Should be interesting. I'm sort of curious if the Non-Compete agreement they had has lapsed or not

Thank you whoever you are

WWW.WeSeekHerRods.com

They are in a legal dispute with Shimano presently. Gary will not be heavily involved in the new company any more than he has been in the past several years - this is not an entirely new venture.

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I don't doubt it. It sure raises an interesting question leagally when a trade name is your name

Thank you whoever you are

WWW.WeSeekHerRods.com

There's a little more to it that than, but the issue is that the name "G. Loomis, Inc" is a legally registered trademark and is owned by Shimano Corp. The legal question will be how the Loomis name is used and whether it's used to sell a similar line of products.

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"this is not an entirely new venture. "
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Yes I used to have a bookmark for the company that was going to be producing a Gary Loomis designed product but the site went down and that's all she wrote until I read about the 'rest of the story' here today.

Thanks to everyone for the update.