The Paladin geared retrieve reel is lavishly hand crafted with impeccable design for the serious angler. With hand polished and carved nickel silver face, the Paladin is the most elegant and powerful reel available. The Paladin has been in design for five years and is finally available on a limited bases due to the considerable amount of time-consuming hand crafting involved throughout! Ether nickel silver sides or aluminum sides (like the Talbot Ben Hur) are available. Aluminum is the lighter weight choice for lighter, shorter rods.

The aluminum is special grade of 7075 aircraft aluminum used here for its considerable strength and superb, hard finish. The 18% nickel silver is pure elegance. Eigher material makes a for a fishing tool unsurpassed by other reels available today. The drag system is smooth as silk like the Paradigm and the geared system has been perfected over 20 years ago in powerful trout and salmon reels. Much of the design effort was focused on marrying the drag system with the gear train in a reel that was still easy to take down. Like all Godfrey reels, the Paladin features single screw takedown.

Added elegance is seen in detailing throughout. The pillars feature nice step collars and the rims are cleanly carved like wedding bands. The handle arm is carved, extra heavy aluminum and the fitting finely knurled. The face plate is all carved and hand polished to perfection while the polished back plate features special knurling on all fittings. This reel never loses value despite heavy use or abuse because bands can be replaced if really crunched, and nicks anywhere can always be polished up - just like new!