Lee & Sons Aquilla. Pictures included

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A very nice rod indeed. :)
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I have to say ( a bit late I know) that's a marvelous job thats been done on that rod, well done Hayden C. :Thumb:

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Haydn doesn't come here much BL, but you can find him on The Path forum, or I can pass a message on to him for you gladly.

It will come to no surprise for you to hear he is a cabinet maker and furniture restorer. When he first restored a rod he sort of jumped 5 or 6 years compared to the rest of us and had soon invented his own drying cabinet and 'pouring' method, as opposed to dipping when varnishing.

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Hello Haydn, or anyone else if he doesn't visit often, that is a VERY lovely finish. Do we know what varnish/finishing technique was used please?
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Haydn used Mylands No8 polyeurethane varnish I believe, and he pours it onto a rotating rod below which is a system to recover the excess varnish.
Maybe this is a system used in furniture manufacture but it was new to me!


I think that was about his 3rd. rod :Brickwall:

There's a 'how it was done' on the Pure Piscator site, but I can't find it today as the search facility seems to have broken.

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Is this the thread Nobby (found using Google)? http://www.purepiscator.com/forum/defau ... osts&t=263

Or this? (page 2, scroll down) : http://www.purepiscator.com/forum/defau ... &t=384&p=2

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The second one Garry...sadly a nasty case of botphucket seems to have done away with the images...again.

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