Canal Specials Since 1993
MB Floats was first founded as a mail order, Brochure based supplier of Hand turned Specials way back in 1993.
MB Canal Specials website, was also one of the front runners in the early days of online ordering 1998 and is still online today as an archive. www.mbcanalspecials.co.uk mainly for the hardcore canal match anglers. All balsa patterns there were 100% hand turned by myself. With many now available in my online store.
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Times are a changing!……..
MB Floats has joined the social networks…………
LAST UPDATE FOR CANAL SITE
2019 MB (Canal Specials) site will be hosted with MB Floats………
All The patterns listed within online store are also finished by hand, No Factory/machine dipping as not very cost effective for one, as I only make short runs now! Also it gives even the fully auto-mated HT range of pole floats I assemble/build uniqueness when finishing individually by brush.
Some of my Canal patterns are well over 30 years young now and although copied by many manufacturers I still continue to make by hand as I thoroughly enjoy making floats using this method and still believe this to be the only true way to grade such an organic material as balsa.
Although I regard myself as just a Hobby Float maker now. My online store must carry one of the biggest catalogue of pole floats in the UK. With the specials I would even go as far as saying to the best of my knowledge that I have the biggest range of Hand-turned pole floats anywhere in Europe now….
Another interesting fact is MB Floats is one of only a few in the UK that make virtually everything from Traditional vintage Hand-crafted Floats to modern CnC machined pole floats using a variety of methods to make fishing floats from Vintage Topper Avon's to the very modern PMI foam Carp patterns.