Having seen Paul's beautifully illustrated float boxes I decided to have a crack at my own.. ..adding an illustration to my box that is, not making the actual box.. ..the floats are however homemade. The floats are a bit rough and ready and nowhere near the quality I've seen by some of our other forum members, that said, I'm not really a float fisherman and made these mainly as a display piece for on top of my book case, I'll maybe try them out this autumn for perch on Coniston Water...
I created the illustration by sanding off the 'varnish' that was on the box and sketched the perch on with a biro. I intend to varnish back over the sketch however I can't help imagining that the varnish will smear the ink, any of you know if this would be the case? I may resort to using a spray on varnish.
Anyway thanks for looking, Scott.