Ever have one of those days where you try to follow the instructions and just can't seem to make it work out no matter how hard you try? I was following Pat's tutorial on snake skin courtesy Mudhole:

Remove under layer of skin. When the skin is cut in step 4, ~ leaves a small piece of skin underneath the top skin. This is easily removed by lifting the top skin and pulling the skin underneath Irom the rod.

After gluing the skin on the blank with CP, I ended up pulling it back off and trying to figure out for 20 minutes why I couldn't get this magical layer of skin to peel off. By the time I was done my skin looked like something out of a science fair project.... and then the light bulb lit when I realized he was only talking about the little tag end after being cut with the razor, not a seperate layer of skin over the entire length. There needs to be a library of rodbuilding video's.... it saves stupid people like me much time when you get a visual to go along with the words.

I would love some videos, but i already spent my annual budget and it is only February

Rodbuilding, cheaper than therapy.

Duhhhh,,,Phil I have done very similar things but I never had the brass to tell anyone about it. I always just glance over my shoulder and go on like nothing happened !!!!!! LOL

Thats not too bad, wait until I tell you what I did one time.

Well no, never mind

Ohio Rod Builders

Canton, Ohio

Phil,
That's funny! Mainly because I had to read the directions about 4 times to be sure I knew exactly what Pat meant by removing the extra layer.

clyde

That was covered in Joe Emig's original article in RodMaker.

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I found a few simple videos on YouTube and linked to them on my website "The Rodbuilder's Library".

I've been playing with the idea of making a video or two myself to post there as well and if anyone does
make any video tutorials on rod building I would love to be able to post them there as well. Video files
can be to large to distribute via email so a website like mine would be perfect for that.

Raymond Adams
Eventually, all things merge, and a river runs through it..

I couldn't find Joes article in my Rodmaker collection. I've got to come up with a better way of organizing the magazines so I can find particular articles easier.

well phil.....i have made so many mistakes....and still do..........cant wait till my next one. it will probly be a big one. but we still keep goin.