We have been working very hard in the background to have this site ready for the start of the season. Whilst we still have a few pages to complete we feel the shop is now ready for anyone who’s looking for a reel. Thanks for looking.
Kinetic 500 now available
The Kinetic is now available for international free shipping through our online store for the amazing price of $299USD. This reel is 100% made in England to the same exacting standards as you’ve come to expect from all kingpin products.
The Kinetic comes in all Black & Grey/Black two tone. Both the spool and backplate hard defense standard hard-coat anodised courtesy of our local treatments house who include customers such as McLaren F1 & BAE systems to name just a few. The best finish you will find on any reel, hands down.
Couple the above with other standard features such as ABEC5 marine grade German bearings and tolerances unrivaled within the industry, you really will not get a better reel for your money.
All in the detail
When you buy a reel you may or may not give much thought to some of the smaller parts that make up the reel, especially some of the parts that are out of sight out of mind. These parts can be very intricate as they have to carry out certain functions and be constrained in terms of size so everything becomes smaller and precise. A good example of this is the Phosphor Bronze housing we make to hold the ratchet spring system in place. Small and precise and made with a exotic material which is relatively expensive and unique to machine.
Kingpin Kinetic 500
Available from March 2020. Built to our quality kingpin standard. 100% made in England. Only $300USD.
Project Zero
Project 0 (Zero) - a reel that resembles a zero in its construction hence the name. Massive (4 1/2 diameter) bearings that sit directly under the line giving a completely different feel and performance to any float reel you've used before. Currently under prototype construction. This reel may or may not ever make it into production but there will be a couple of prototype available at the very least. It'll be worth the R&D purely for the next projects value.
Project 00 (Double Zero) - 2 rings held together by 4 bearings, 2 large 4 1/2" bearings and 2 standard miniature kingpin bearings used in our Zodiac. Two points of rotation one under the line diameter and one at the current point of rotation around the spindle. These two points of rotation are linked in the sense that they both have a fundamental job to play in the way the reel operates and are not there for cosmetic purposes in anyway (although I plan on making the reel look good as well)
Whilst these projects are still in their infancy stages we’ve decided to release the info now and share the development so you all can appreciate the amount of work that goes into getting a project from idea to production. It would be nice to have you all share you thoughts and ideas along the way to see if we can get these unique reels from design to production. As far as I am aware nothing like this has been done before with a reel so it really is hit and miss if they will ever make it to production but it's gotta be worth a shot.
Another Tried and tested Bridgepost VMC 600
Really pleased to have another VMC at our disposal as we’ve felt we’ve been one machine down for a while. This machine will be deciacated to some pressing projects thats we’ve been unable to crack on with for a while…..
Custom Kingpin Handles Now Available
Thomas Turner Product Review
It was great having the opportunity to sit down with Mr. John Stephenson to talk about our current reels
Zodiac-500
After a lot of research and development we’re very pleased to introduce to you - Zodiac-500
All White?
Kingpin Floats Now Available
Pick & Mix sizes and colours. Sizes available - 4g, 6g, 8g, 10 & 12g.
$120USD for 12 (includes postage & packaging)
New Handle Material
Some rather interesting handle options coming soon
Kingpin Product Development News
We have been working on a new reel in the background since 2016. We feel we have got to a stage with this specific reel to share some exciting information with everyone thats interested.
The reel is named ''The Zodiac-500'' and we are already well under way on the final Prototype which is the third prototype of this truly all new kingpin model. The Zodiac has some very unique features, one of the main being the all new & innovative clicker system which evolved from us wanting to make the system as compact as possible
Prototype 1 entered field testing in the UK & North America in 2016. After a gap in development due to other pressing business priorities we finally got round to making (3) Prototype 2's of which one is in the Canada, one is in the US, and the remaining one we have ourselves in the UK. P2 is what you see pixelated out in the attached pictures. Testing P2 on these monsters in Thailand really pushed certain features on this reel (namely the clicker system).
The main reason we have the reel pixelated out in the attached images is that P3 and the final reel available for purchase will look quite a bit different than P1 and P2 as we are giving the back plate some “flair” to compliment the cutting edge spool design. We hope to share some images of P3 in the near future
What we can reveal is this will be our most advanced reel to date as we are pushing what we can achieve. The price point for this reel will be higher than any of our current models.
We are looking at this reel being available for sale in 3 to 6 months at worst (subject to P3 testing results)
Happy New Year
Happy New Year from Kingpin.
2018 was a fantastic year for kingpin thanks to all of our customers.
Forging ahead with our workshop we’ve achieved our goal - to supply the demand for our current kingpin product line-up.
2019 is going to be a very exciting year for all who are kingpin fans. We will be introducing new reel models and adding them to our current model line-up.
We are looking forward to 2019
Smoked out Zeppelins Coming Soon
Zeppelin SE - Digital Camo
After years of research and development we finally have a finish that passes the strict kingpin quality control and is now available for purchase.
The Digi Camo Edition is $850USD
Imperial: 425
The Imperial: 425 (4 1/4") centrepin is ideal for those smaller rivers during the summer months . New and unique about this small batch run is the colours are all hard anodised.
Check them out at your local kingpin retailer!
Custom Aero's
4 off end of season last of the batch custom finished. $850USD shipped. Please message me for payment detials.
Black & Blue - Sold
Black/Green - Sold
Grey/Blue - Sold
Grey/Green - Sold
Kingpin - Spey 4"
