Float storage

[ReelMaker]

Good afternoon,does any member make simple float tubes ,that would take a few floats or have any idea on how to make one.Reelmaker

[Santiago]

Buy a piece of wide bamboo from a garden centre and big corks from a homebrew shop! Add a saw and cut the bamboo to size!

[Dave Burr]

Paint brush tubes are very useful as are pringles tubes - reinforced with tape or something, not pretty but functional. I know that Richard C coated one with those wooden stirrers from coffee shops, tained it and it looked half decent.

[CrayCane]

A visit to the plumbing department provided some very simple tubes:





They need a small hole piercing in one of the caps as they are pretty airtight.

Pete

[Olly]

A couple of Craftsmen do make them - works of art though! Painted or transfer on the bamboo. I have 3 different ones on my desk!

One maker is a regular on here - Evert!

[JW1]

Pringle tubes


JW

[Tonkin Wand]

Hi Reelmaker, You don't give any idea of what size or capacity of container you require or how durable in the field it needs to be? However some very novel suggestions of what others have pressed into service has been forthcoming.

[Loop Erimder]

A visit to the plumbing department provided some very simple tubes:





They need a small hole piercing in one of the caps as they are pretty airtight.

Pete

If you wanted to tart them up a tad you could get some coarse sander paper and rub tubes in one direction and stain with a dark brown wood stain will look like wood....Google it....

[Sneezewort]

I certainly can’t vouch to be able to make, but I do possess a leather tube made by a company called C.I.W which if I recall stood for Cast in Wood.
Mrs Sneezewort purchased it for me and I’m not sure if it was around the time Edward Barder had some other products , creels and the like which he advertised - would have been the early 90’s. It was likely to have come from that direction I suspect.

I really need to get the leather balm out though looking at it.
Now if you know any saddlemakers, I think it’s a thing of beauty. I can’t find a record of the company any longer sadly.

[Olly]

Leather ones are still made!

"Casting in Wood" (CIW) made pins as well your tube. At 8" they were £22.50 and at 10" - £25.00. Not cheap.
I have the original price list and brochure.