Work now scaled back..
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Work now scaled back..
This has been the largest and most challenging to make so far..something a bit different anyway!
A special 4 1/2" reel with a wide drum for those much heavier fish incorporating an optional, automatic check and line drum brake.
The 'scales' are all individually cut out pieces of striated oak (230 of them), set into a single piece of Turkish walnut.
For some reason, the pictures are not as good as I would have liked, but will give you some idea. Click on them to see clearer.
With regards,
wm+
A special 4 1/2" reel with a wide drum for those much heavier fish incorporating an optional, automatic check and line drum brake.
The 'scales' are all individually cut out pieces of striated oak (230 of them), set into a single piece of Turkish walnut.
For some reason, the pictures are not as good as I would have liked, but will give you some idea. Click on them to see clearer.
With regards,
wm+
"Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? Yet one of them shall not fall without your Father knoweth" ..Jesus of Nazareth, King James AV
- PershoreHarrier
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Re: Work now scaled back..
Good Heavens - that is some work of art and engineering.
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Re: Work now scaled back..
Jaw dropping reel - absolutely superb.
No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.
Heraclitus
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Heraclitus
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- Bob Brookes
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Re: Work now scaled back..
Simply wonderful. One reel closer to mine.
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- Bumble
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Re: Work now scaled back..
Superb pin Superb skills
Bumble
Bumble
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Re: Work now scaled back..
My word! what a piece of engineering perfection.
I have a spare kidney if interested in a swap-in hind sight, probably not a good idea as mine rattle with the amount of stones in there!
I have a spare kidney if interested in a swap-in hind sight, probably not a good idea as mine rattle with the amount of stones in there!
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Washington Irving
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Re: Work now scaled back..
Peerless Sir, and then some.
I try very hard not to be a man with envy, but I am only human (unlike you it seems!).
Thank you for sharing.
I try very hard not to be a man with envy, but I am only human (unlike you it seems!).
Thank you for sharing.
Where the willows meet the water...
https://sites.google.com/site/tengisgol/
https://sites.google.com/site/tengisgol/
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Re: Work now scaled back..
Astonishing!
Every time I think you've made the most beautiful reel I'll ever see, you raise the bar once more!
Every time I think you've made the most beautiful reel I'll ever see, you raise the bar once more!
I walked across an empty land
I knew the pathway like the back of my hand
I felt the earth beneath my feet
Sat by the river and it made me complete.
I knew the pathway like the back of my hand
I felt the earth beneath my feet
Sat by the river and it made me complete.
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Re: Work now scaled back..
Simply wonderful.
Mark (Administrator)
The most precious places in the English landscape are those secretive corners,
where you find only elder trees, nettles and dreams. (BB - Denys Watkins-Pitchford).
The most precious places in the English landscape are those secretive corners,
where you find only elder trees, nettles and dreams. (BB - Denys Watkins-Pitchford).
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Re: Work now scaled back..
Arise Sir Watermole.
If you have no grease with you, and your rings are full of ice, do not cut out the ice with a pen-knife but get your man to put the rings one by one in his mouth, and so to thaw the ice.
John Bickerdyke.
John Bickerdyke.