Fishing The Fly Scotland
Index => Rod Building => Topic started by: Ben Dixon on 16/08/2013 at 13:31
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What's the best / easiest thread t use for whipping eyes onto a salmon blank? Got loads of Pearsalls, Kevlar, bass bug (3/0) tying thread.
Cheers
Ben
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Pearsalls would be most entertaining and keep you amused for hours :z7
Stick to D sized Nylon, i've got a stack in different colours if you want some. :z16
Sandy
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Thanks Sandy.
I cut a ring of a broken blank today and tried to put it back on with Pearsalls. Kept snapping and took ages, gave up after about 90 mins and 6 attempts, ring still not on rod :z4
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What colour?
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Yellow
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No sweat, got loads of D sized yellow.
Will look one out and work out when I can drop it off. :z16
Sandy
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No sweat, got loads of D sized yellow.
Will look one out and work out when I can drop it off. :z16
Sandy
Sorry Sandy, misunderstood. It was yellow I was playing with but the blank will be built with black!
Cheers
Ben
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I've black as well :z16
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Thanks Sandy.
I cut a ring of a broken blank today and tried to put it back on with Pearsalls. Kept snapping and took ages, gave up after about 90 mins and 6 attempts, ring still not on rod :z4
I did tell you! Pearsalls is only for "retro" rod builders who are retired and can spend days fiddling about with cane blanks! ;)
You would be better of with a dab of super glue on the foot and some shrink tubing over the top ;) Seen a beachcaster "rewhipped" this way in about 15 minutes flat!
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I did tell you! Pearsalls is only for "retro" rod builders who are retired and can spend days fiddling about with cane blanks! ;)
You would be better of with a dab of super glue on the foot and some shrink tubing over the top ;) Seen a beachcaster "rewhipped" this way in about 15 minutes flat!
Thanks for that pearl of wisdom Rob :z4
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Got some thread and other bits & pieces from David Norwich. Very cheap and came through post in great time.
Definitely a thread issue rather than my ineptness!!
Practice whipping with Pac Bay grade C grey nylon
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Cheers
Ben
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Better than what Hardy is currently producing!!
If you burnish the thread, you will close up all the little gaps and end with a nice smooth finish. I use a knitting needle.
Now comes the fun part, the epoxy!
Hope you washed your hands and have not been anywhere near the threads with silicon ;)
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Ran over it with a bic biro lid Rob, didn't see the gaps until I took macro pic of it!! See them now and have fixed it, still quite pleased with it :cool:
I thought Sandy was winding me up when he said he did them in front of the TV and that it should only take a few minutes!!
Pearsalls is for old retired folk with too much time on their hands :z4
Ben
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I thought Sandy was winding me up when he said he did them in front of the TV and that it should only take a few minutes!!
Its easy enough doing a standard whipping on a fly rod as you have found out. Starts to get a little harder adding trims, bit harder still if adding a single turn of tipping and a nightmare when weaving a name! Then increase the blank diameter to the size of a beachcaster and it becomes very time consuming indeed.
I always find the epoxy the hardest to get right...hate the stuff!