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Title: Thread for DHD
Post by: Ben Dixon on 16/08/2013 at 13:31

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

Title: Re: Thread for DHD
Post by: Sandy Nelson on 16/08/2013 at 20:42

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

Title: Re: Thread for DHD
Post by: Ben Dixon on 16/08/2013 at 21:39

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

Title: Re: Thread for DHD
Post by: Sandy Nelson on 16/08/2013 at 22:16

What colour?

Title: Re: Thread for DHD
Post by: Ben Dixon on 16/08/2013 at 23:09

Yellow

Title: Re: Thread for DHD
Post by: Sandy Nelson on 17/08/2013 at 08:25

No sweat, got loads of D sized yellow.
Will look one out and work out when I can drop it off. :z16

Sandy

Title: Re: Thread for DHD
Post by: Ben Dixon on 17/08/2013 at 09:07

Quote from: Spiderman on 17/08/2013 at 08:25

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

Title: Re: Thread for DHD
Post by: Sandy Nelson on 17/08/2013 at 18:18

I've black as well :z16

Title: Re: Thread for DHD
Post by: Rob Brownfield on 19/08/2013 at 07:46

Quote from: Ben_D on 16/08/2013 at 21:39

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!

Title: Re: Thread for DHD
Post by: Ben Dixon on 19/08/2013 at 09:26

Quote from: Rob on 19/08/2013 at 07:46

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

Title: Re: Thread for DHD
Post by: Ben Dixon on 21/08/2013 at 10:52

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

Title: Re: Thread for DHD
Post by: Rob Brownfield on 21/08/2013 at 11:06

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 ;)

Title: Re: Thread for DHD
Post by: Ben Dixon on 21/08/2013 at 12:10

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

Title: Re: Thread for DHD
Post by: Rob Brownfield on 21/08/2013 at 13:19

Quote from: Ben_D on 21/08/2013 at 12:10

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!