Testing a new weave pattern and playing with color. Anglers Workshop "B" #037 wrap thread. Coats & Clark 40wt. black, FishHawk "A" reg. white, Madeira #1950, #1910, # 1754, & #1795
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This is a hand carved cherry wood grip that supposedly was presented to Dale P. Clemens by the Fuji Corp. back in the 70's or 80's. If anyone has seen this grip before or can provide any info. Please contact me.
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I simple transfer station for making little spools from big ones. My Dad did this from stuff he had on hand in his home shop. Not pretty but works great and don't clog up his wrapper with set-up & tear down.
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Split grip set turned from Honey Locust and an old "Rino" double exposed trigger seat newly painted. Entire assembly finished with spray poly urethane
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Been at Dad's in Idaho on holiday and he's been teaching me on his lathe. Lower rod is my first turned set of handle reel seat & forgrip nub. Turned from the same piece of cedar. Upper set is a carved reel seat and matching butt cap I was lucky enough to aquire from Paul Kneller from Australia (THANKS PAUL!)and grips from rings I glued & turned. LATHES ARE COOL!!!!!! Done some s
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Ronnie Young reminded me of the main reason I took up bilding rods again after a very long time off. Here it is! This young lady is only 6yrs old and she beat both her older brothers (14yrs & 16yrs old!) and everyone else to win the Auburn trout derby last April with an 8lb 4oz rainbow. I just finished building "her own" rod for her birthday which is next week. I should
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This is an experiment wrap I tried just to see how the Throop/Colby method could be applied to a guide wrap. The "how to" explanation will be posted on the forum.
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My first try at cutting & gluing up EVA sections and rings. I see I need to pay closer attention to making the rings equil widths! I had intended to inlay some light pink hearts into the darker pink sections of the grip but my practice inlays (see the red unmounted foregrip) were not so hot. Had nasty glue lines & the pink hearts are so thin it was to easy to sand to much.
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This is one of Doc Ski's patterns I tweek a bit with thread choices. WRONG CHOICES!! Had fun though and learned a lot!
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Asked & answered. Here is the weave pattern I just made earlier from the program by Owen Dare that is being Beta tested. The program creates a left list for you. I didn't check the left list just wrapped as written. Looks like I had one thread out of place. (probably my error and not the programs) I was in a hurry. Done with "A" Gudbrode HT 9000 gold and "B&
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This is a small 38 X 43 silhouette pattern I made using a new weaving program under Beta testing. So far the program is pretty cool!
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65 X 110 6 color 5 layer (with black as wrapping color) left list included for those who use them.
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This is a work in progress. I'm thinking the fins should be an orangish color instead of the green it is now. Other than that it's just about done.
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another name weave pattern but no left list for this one. Sorry!
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The pattern for a weave I posted last year. 23 X 73
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18 X 57 script pattern with left list
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Reverse side (pg 2)
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My dad Larry made this wrapper for a cousin who is about to build his first rod. A simple design but works very well. He built one just like it for me when I started building again. I did however move the wingnut adjustments from underneath to on top though. No routing, planing, cut & sand the parts and assemble. Disassembles easily for transport too!
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Base wrap = Gudebrod "A" HT blue & gold (no CP) and 2 coats finish Overwrap = same blue HT and 1 coat finish
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Here is another look at the basewrap.
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Base wrap is Anglers Warehouse size "B" green and white reg. nylon. Overwrap is Gudebrod "A" verigated light/dark green reg. nylon. From left to right, 1)basewrap w/finish 2)overwrap completed and spare removed, 3)top finish coat applied I was disappointed with results until I made the mistake of NOT applying CP before the top coat of finish like I had intend
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Their tapered foregrips would make a cool "split grip" set up!
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Dr.Bill Hanneman give a Seminar on the CCS system
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Split diamonds with 1 on the garnet side wrapped double. My version of "jets"
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Billy's "Evil Bass" 65 X 110 5 colors 4 layers. 7mm X 26mm Design threads are size "A" and wrapping thread is "D" (all reg. nylon). This is my first attempt at weaving other than name lettering. A bit daunting to jump right in with a multi-layer color change but I just HAD to verify my pattern making abilities. I liked Billy's Evil bass so m
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As this was moved off of the main front page so quickly and I beleive it's important to be seen, I took it upon myself to post it again
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Shikari 9.5 ft. 1pc for throwing iron wrapped "deckhand" style Wrap copied from a posted by Scott Youschak (his scales) by request. thread is Fishawk #206 garnetNCP "C" and black "D" Weave is 33 threads FishHawk black "D" reg. nylon with Rice #206 garnet "C" wrapping thread
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Pattern is 21 X 84 threads
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weave done with 21 Madeira "Jewel" holo ribbon threads and Gudebrod #524 rose pink size A wrap thread. Name is 16mm long X 6mm high. Total length of wrap is 35mm
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