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15 years ago
Jeffrey Van Zandt
7-foot 2-tip cane rod with engraved Bellinger nickel silver reel seat
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15 years ago
Jeffrey Van Zandt
engraved nickel silver end cap
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15 years ago
Jeffrey Van Zandt
anickel silver engraved buckeye burl fly rod reel seat reel seat
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15 years ago
Jeffrey Van Zandt
two brass end caps engraved with caddis and stone fly nymph along with spec around the side
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15 years ago
Jeffrey Van Zandt
a brass rod tube end cap engraved for a costom shop @-inch dim
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15 years ago
Jeffrey Van Zandt
the finished ivory end cap with the colored mayfly ready to glue up on the reel seat
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15 years ago
Jeffrey Van Zandt
This vice will hold round and squear stock well for centering for drilling
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15 years ago
Jeffrey Van Zandt
color being added to an ivory scrimshawe work of a mayfly
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15 years ago
Jeffrey Van Zandt
fly rod reel seat that is finished trunning in the lath
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15 years ago
Jeffrey Van Zandt
fly rod reel seat stock on mandrill in lathe ready to start trunning
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15 years ago
Jeffrey Van Zandt
A PSI lathe mandrill with 3- different size bushing from front to back 7-mm bushings on the mandrill is 8-mm bushings in the rear is the 10-mm bushing with this mandrill and bushing set up I can trun all 3 bore sizes I need to
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15 years ago
Jeffrey Van Zandt
a Ambonya wood reel seat blank ready to drill set up in the vise
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15 years ago
Jeffrey Van Zandt
3-drills for the drilling of fly rod reel seats left to right a 7-mm brad point, next a 8-mm used for most reel seat bores then a 10-mm larest I use but all holes are done first with the 7-mm
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15 years ago
Jeffrey Van Zandt
a lee valley vice that is made to hold square or round stock blanks for drill press drilling
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15 years ago
Jeffrey Van Zandt
nickel silver fly rod reel seat ring on expanding arbor, ready to have the rope knurling added be for engraveing
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15 years ago
Jeffrey Van Zandt
Ivory end cap hand scrimshed with black ink coloring
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15 years ago
Jeffrey Van Zandt
one seat a engraved nickel silver on amboyna and the other is a scrimshawed nude in color on ivory end cape which is going on a new cane rod being built on a old orvis taper a slow @#$%& nymphing rod,8-foot 2-pc 2-tip
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15 years ago
Jeffrey Van Zandt
a ivory end cap on a salmon prist
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15 years ago
Jeffrey Van Zandt
a engraved Billenger down locking reel seat hand engrave with a mayfly dun
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15 years ago
Jeffrey Van Zandt
scrimshaw art in color on fly rod end cap
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15 years ago
Jeffrey Van Zandt
colored scrimshaw art in color on ivory end cap
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15 years ago
Jeffrey Van Zandt
Caddis dun end cap on ivory
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15 years ago
Jeffrey Van Zandt
router set up for cutting the reel foot cut
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15 years ago
Jeffrey Van Zandt
final finsh waxing the reel seat after sanding down to 2500 and permalyn sealer
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15 years ago
Jeffrey Van Zandt
a new reel seat sanded down to 2500 and ready to be pad finished down to 25000 grit
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15 years ago
Jeffrey Van Zandt
mt engraved nickel silver ferrule mt and pinned on butt with wrap of pearsalls gossamer chestnut silk with 1 coat of Alchemist amber varnish on the wraps the Alchemist varnish is a artest medum used for mixing paint pigments for oil paintings but is soaks, but is hard to dry so after 2 days the first coat of Southerland wells will go on that drys all the 2 more sand with 1500grit and final coa
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15 years ago
Jeffrey Van Zandt
my wife fitting the ferrules on one of her Cane rods
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15 years ago
Jeffrey Van Zandt
1/4 inch router set in a Lowes 10.00 sales router tabel with 5/8 inch fingernil modafide router bit cutting a reel seat station
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15 years ago
Jeffrey Van Zandt
the lathe I use the most for turnning reel seats with a pen turnning mandril in place with reel seat on it
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15 years ago
Jeffrey Van Zandt
hand engraved ferrules headed for a new home on a new 7-foot Bamboo rod
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