Several months ago I emailed several of you plans for an inexpensive rod wrapper, one of which I've used. Those plans were sent to me by a friend. He stated when he emailed the plans that he couldn't remember where he got them, the authors name was not included in salutation or body of the work. So I happily made up a rod wrapper according to the plans and have been merrily wrapping rods with the same unit I made out of oak.
I saved the emailed plan my friend sent to me and have passed the rod wrapper plans on to several, approx 20 of you, out there in rod wrapping land. In a weird twist of fate, I also e-mailed the self same plans to T.K. for possible inclusion in future articles in RodMaker. T.K. being the fine sleuth that he is, especially where articles for the magazine have to be planned very carefully, found out the author of those fine rod wrapper plans. The author is one Greg Penell and the plans, at least upto last month can be found on "www.steelheader.com or net" .
So, my point, I did not and have not intended to be the author of those terrific rod wrapper plans. And a BIG THANKS to Tom Kirkman for finding the original author. Tight lines for everyone!
David A. Fuller
Great Basin Fishing Rods

Actually, you should thank Cliff Hall (I think) who found the plans and the orginal author on the website you mention.


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Yes, indeed, gentleman, I am he who happened by sheer Providence to notice the dual authorship of the article for this fine Manual Rod Wrapping Jig. Between my Bible studies and my Pharmacy College professors and my days of method development as a benchtop chemist, I learned the value (and the necessity!) of including "chapter & verse" in my notes, and citing the authorship of my references for the points of my arguments. (And it also helped with trouble-shooting the kinds of problems that are inherent with method development. Which is actually what the bulk of our discussions here at RBO are about: design & methods.) And as a chemist, I had a fine boss who was like an uncle (an MD) who taught me to give credit where credit is due (WRF). He did, and it was contagious !

Thanks, Dave Fuller, for sharing this Jig with everybody. I'm glad to hear that the question of authorship was more of a mix-up than anything else.
A real big "HAPPY THANKSGIVING" to everybody. -Cliff Hall- Florida.

This is the Post which brought this to Tom Kirkman's attention:
"Fuller's or Pennell's Rod Jig? Cliff Hall 10-15-04 23:06
[www.rodbuilding.org]
The LIBRARY has design plans for a MANUAL rod wrapping jig:
"The Easy To Build Rod Wrapping Jig By Dave Fuller".
Essentially the same article and photographs are credited on another website to a GREG PENNELL. To whom is the credit due?
[www.steelheader.net].
No Replies were ever posted, but Tom did e-mail me off-line.

Duncan Watson made the referral as a Reply in the following Post-Thread
(in which I was also participating):
Affordable Wrapper?Anyone??
Author: Chris Santemma Date: 09-23-04 16:02

Re: Affordable Wrapper?Anyone??
Author: Duncan Watson Date: 09-23-04 16:50
[www.steelheader.net]

Yes, and thanks indeed to both of you !
As Cliff mentioned any error on my part was totally unintentional and done in the good naturedly act of helping another person out.

Now that I'm aware of the author I've included a statement of credit in the introductory body. That way, anyone else getting the plans will know the origin of the design. I just finished furnishing components and equipment to a rod building class of 10 people, all of them received copies of this design. In Feb, 10 more people will get copies of the design and so on and so forth.

Thanks so much guys,

David A. Fuller
Great Basin Fishing Rods
Reno, Nevada

Gerg was not upset and told me that he was just the plans were helping others out. All's well that ends well, I suppose.

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That's kind of funny as I have also been sending the link to the rod wrapper plans on the steelheader.net website to others for the past couple of years(ever since they were first posted there) and I too made my first wrapper based on them.

There use to be excellent detailed plans for building a double rod drier system on there as well,but the last time I looked they were no longer available,just the wrapper plans.The author also had plans on how to made PVC rod chucks for the driers(which he sent me via email) and I built my driers similar to these,only I made 2 single driers instead of one double(don't ask me why,LOL).

Interestingly, I found plans for a rod dryer on the site but not a link on the page to the plans. I may have just overlooked the link or it may be that the website administrator doesn't have it linked with the other rodbuilding items. Here is the address:

[www.steelheader.net]