Fishing The Fly Scotland
Index => Rod Building => Topic started by: Sandy Nelson on 03/02/2009 at 19:42
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Well the good thing about not getting out in all this cold weather has meant i've been holed up in the garage a lot more than i thought and i'm making great progress with my Project.
Thanks to Irvine and his plane, i've been looking for alternative methods of making bamboo strips. I will probably use the Plane to make the tapered sections but i've built a mini milling machine to rough the strips into squares and then into untapered triangles.
Using some scrap componants from a helicopter door, some MDF, sheet aluminium and a basic router i have a functional if crude milling machine.
So far i have been able to cut square sections quite easily and will be trying out the triangles tomorrow.
Well ahead of schedule, so perhaps the Ice aint so bad after all. :z7
(http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh7/skuesapprentice/flies/miller1.jpg)
(http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh7/skuesapprentice/flies/miller2.jpg)
(http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh7/skuesapprentice/flies/miller3.jpg)
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Sandy
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That looks quite good Sandy ..... You should think about taking up engineering :z4
Great stuff, I'm impressed :z16
Cheers
Mike
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Got going properly this morning :z16
And have been roughing squares and now triangles. The triangles are a bit trickier and i had quite a few attempts before i got the techniques.
But i'm there now, so the rest of the day is going to be spent making lots of strips, so i can get onto final tapers and then some gluing.
I've an interesting idea to try for this too :wink So we'll see :z18
(http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh7/skuesapprentice/flies/squaresandtriangles.jpg)
Sandy
ps. It was suggested i did a blog for this project, but i don't really know how and i'm more interested in making the rods, so i hope you don't mind me expressing myself on the forum instead.
I'm finding it all quite exciting, hope i'm not too boring :roll
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Great stuff Sandy :z16
It is good fun following all the photos and story on here ..... keep it coming :wink
Cheers
Mike
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Great stuff Sandy :z16
It is good fun following all the photos and story on here ..... keep it coming :wink
Cheers
Mike
I second that...not boring at all..quite the opposite!!!..can I order 2 10 foot Mark IV blanks please :)...I have the original measurements and tapers at home somewhere..hint hint ;)
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i hope you don't mind me expressing myself on the forum instead.
hope i'm not too boring :roll
Definitely not. Keep up the good work :z16 I find it all fascinating, and can't wait to see the build progress.
Cheers
Cammy
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I second that...not boring at all..quite the opposite!!!..can I order 2 10 foot Mark IV blanks please :)...I have the original measurements and tapers at home somewhere..hint hint ;)
At the current rate of progress, if i charge 50p an hour they would still be bloody expensive :z4 Still anything's possible :wink
Still trying to get a 3ft section to turn out right, never mind 5ft :shock Thats just scary :z10
Thanks for the encouragement though :z18
This is how my garage looks at the moment :z6
(http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh7/skuesapprentice/flies/workarea.jpg)
Lets hope chinese finger puzzles are as good for bamboo as they first appear :wink
Sandy
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Keeping your tools in the boot of a red Ferrari then :z13
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Keeping your tools in the boot of a red Ferrari then :z13
Well, it keeps them at hand, and makes a much nicer roll cab than Snap-on :z7
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Sandy
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Another day spent.
Another step forward :grin
With a lot of scrap to show for much effort (it'll keep us warm in the hut) i finally produced a Tapered strip today, that was accurate to a taper :z18
Starting to suffer cabin fever a little now though :z5 need to go fishing. :z15
Thick end of the strip
(http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh7/skuesapprentice/flies/taperstripbuttend.jpg)
Thin end of the strip
(http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh7/skuesapprentice/flies/tipendoftaper.jpg)
You can see the spots where i had to remove splinters, this cane is bloody sharp :shock Guess thats why the Japs used it for torture.
Perhaps they got people to learn how to build rods, it would explain why someone invented fibreglass :z7
Now all i have to do is make another 5 exactly the same, and then another 6 for the other section :z10
At this rate i might even have a working prototype for the start of the season :z3
Well maybe :z4 :z4 :z4 :z4 depends how much snow we get, the snow did get me to thinking. I had been reading about 4 sided and 5 sided rods and could see that they may have practical benefits in terms of casting dynamics, However Snowflakes always have 6 sides so perhaps if nature decrees that 6 is a good number then natural rods should have 6 sides too. It could be fun finding out :cool:
Sandy
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Just found another splinter, thanks to the photo i just posted :shock
Blasted stuff :z6