Well, today has not been the best day. To top it off, my wife and I share office and shop space and she saw these all happen....

Rule #1 - Don't touch the new shiny stuff on the wraps. Some days I have to tell myself this one every hour or so throughout the day.

Rule #2 - Let the hot glue cool for 10 or 15 seconds before you try to remove the excess. You want to remove it while it is still soft, but molten is not such a good idea.

Rule #3 - Never, under any circumstances, grab the hot metal end of the heat gun. On the positive side, it does not take long to inspect the gun if you do this. Enough said.

Rule #4 - Wrap the guide on the correct flat on the bamboo blank. I thought it looked weird?

That's pretty much my Friday. How about you?

Joe Douglas

Rule #6 - Don't try to burnish metallic thread

Rule #7 - Just don't.

I feel your pain Joe!

Here's one from our office -

Rule #1 - Don't be stupid!
Rule #2 - See #1 above.

What if you were spiral wrapping that bamboo blank??

Freddwhy (Rapt-Ryte)

# 8 Do not eat Cheetos when wrapping decorative butt wraps.

LOL. Especially the Cheetos...I can just imagine the results.

Mine, don't hold the tip top with your bare fingers when you are using heat to remove it from a broken piece of blank. Sure beginner mistake, but we all learn the hard way sometimes.... right?

I think it is called experience.

Don't put your sleeve in wet TM. Or wet LS. Or wet Flex Coat.

Or wet anything.

Uncle Russ
Calico Creek Rods

Friday Follies revisited!!! THanks Joe.

# 87 Never remove a kite from a tree with a 2 pc graphite 13 ft'r unless u wrap the ferrule first...stick with the one peice.

#88 when testing the drag of a reel and strength of a rod...make sure your son wears a helmet before you say "RUN" (and looks both ways)

#89 never make a fancy tie off loop...you'll loose it like the sock that disappears in the dryer

#90 always cut AWAY from flesh when using a sharp object

# 91 keep augmented , non male body parts away from wraps....its a silicone "fisheye" thing.

NERB that types with a bar of Ivory soap in his mouth.

# 92 If your exacto knife is rolling off the table, don't try to catch it
# 93 Turn off the cieling fan
# 95 Put paper down before gluing anything over your wife's good dining room table
# 96 Don't glue newspaper to your wife's good dining room table

#96 Take the big gob of blue tape and thread off the bottom of your shoe (or anywhere else it may have stuck) before you go into the office.

#97 Never stand and heat hot melt tip adhedive while wearing crocs (the kind with the holes on top)......unless you actually WANT to learn how to moonwalk.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/10/2007 02:48AM by Scott Throop.

1. Remember to put cap back on U-40 after you're finished
2. Do not allow a wet dog in the room you're drying a rod in
3. Don't get caught using your wife's sewing stuff for rod building
4.Never drink and epoxy at the same time

#98 Never allow your wifes cat access to you rod building area!

#99. Never apply any brand of thread finish immediately after getting your hair cut.

#100 When you put a fly rod with a removable butt in your drying box and it is spinning properly, remember that in a few minutes after you close your box, the butt will be loose and the rod will NOT be spinning properly (or at all). This will only happen when you were in a hurry to leave your house and could not double check the rod either.

#101 - "No dear, this time you cannot hold my blanks until after I wrap the ferrules."

For women only......" Don't ever lean over a rod that has wet epoxy on it..."...!!



ML...

MaryLou Van de Riet
Weatherford,Texas USA

#102 - Lights attract bugs. Turn off the light over the rod dryer at night! If there is one bug in the house he will find your rod.

# 103 Don't use cheap sewing machine thread as your sacrificial thread on a tiger wrap. The keeper thread will trap the fuzzies and the results look like my aunt Barbara's upper lip.