Spent the day doing rough work. Splitting, flaming, sanding nodes, pressing nodes. Its not the most exciting part of making a rod but I like it. All these preliminary steps, taking a raw culm to squared and staggered butt and tip strips is the laying of a foundation. Some pics from the day.
Volunteers to wrap some sticks??
Ruffles have ridges. So do nodes.
Torch em.
Making the best of a bad geographic situation.
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Machining of classic style fly reels
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