"williemcd" wrote:
Hello all, I posted a while back about unloading some of my gear but I
neglected to let ya know that I'm a long time member of this group but
under a different name. My old s/n was bilbonme@aol.
Well, I posted a F/S of a rod prob 75 y/o. I got a query from someone
about make and model. I could only see a manufacturing stamp
indicating Southbend and then I noticed a stamp on the reel seat which
said" Single CROSS Built". The guy the queried me thought that was a
key issue on it's value. So, what does Single CROSS Built mean?

South Bend acquired the Cross Rod Company (headed by Wes Jordan) in an
attempt to upgrade their image. Any South Bend rod with Cross markings
would have been produced between 1926 and 1941. South Bend did not mark all
of their rods during that period as Cross, just the upper end. "Single
built" means each section was conventional construction with six pieces of
bamboo; double built rods were six sided with twelve pieces of bamboo, in
order to use a maximum amount of outside fibers.