Simple as simple does

Made some other form of traditional fishing tackle.
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Stupendous!!
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Fantastic, and I greatly admire your work and ethos!
"....he felt the gentle touch on the line and he was happy"

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A fettler of the first order! Very fine work Jim, I particularly admire the bait buckets. You must get a huge amount of pleasure from all that and quite rightly so. I doff my cap to you.

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Thanks for the kind words chaps :Thumb:
And to answer the question yes i get imense pleasure from making things i can use.
Mrs Gudgeon as always said " im good at making something out of nothing " :Chuckle:

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Beautiful and inspirational..Well done

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It's nice to see you can be a traditional angler with out spending silly money, well done, some lovely kit there.

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Classic Jim - most impressive :Hat:
"I can't wait to buy a bamboo pole and a filament of line and a tube of breadcrumbs. I want to participate in this practice which allows a man to be alone with himself in dignity and peace. It seems a very precious thing to me".

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Great work, great examples of giving life back to items that still have a lot of use left in them .Well done sir .
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