I have an old All Star casting rod that a customer has asked me to rework. This is the second old All Star from him he has asked me to work on.

I am trying to determine the approximate age of the rod just out of curiosity.

The rod has the following items.
>The cork rings were glued to the blank and turned on the rod. They were not sanded smooth. The previous rod was very rough. Both rods I worked on were of this design.
>It has a telescoping blank and is 6'-6" long. Both rods were of this type
> The reel seat has a plastic trigger with a beveled set of cork rings under the reel. There is a layer of thin cork over the rear seat. the reel seat is 2 piece.
> The label indicates that the lure weight is 3/8 to 4/4. (I have not seen lure listed as 4/4)

Your thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

sounds like some of the first rods we used out of Houston in the late 70's

Doug
do you have some history with All Star?

Mark,
a friend of a friend deal back then, we had a small group that fished together in Plano
got some "demo" deals