Wooden rod butt buttons

[Coral Maestro]

Another find while wandering a local vide grenier was this bag of cask stoppers for €3. I think they're oak and decided that they might make nice rod butt buttons.

I had a length of 3/8" BSF threaded rod left over from a previous project so I had all I needed for the job.

I fitted the cask stopper in my lathe and drilled a 10mm hole as centralised as possible (with my limited skill!). I then cut a suitable length of the threaded rod which was glued in with 2 part epoxy. Once that had gone off I filed down the end of the threaded rod and checked that the thread would screw into a rod end cap.
I had an old landing net threaded cap which I put in the lathe chuck. The cask stopper was then screwed into this and turned to shape before finishing with sandpaper and sanding sealer.

[John_Moore]

Very nice CM much better than those rubber thing'ys.
Happy angling in the warm weather.
John.

[Fredline]

They look great, well done.

[Wallys-Cast]

Lovely job. Well done indeed.

Wal.

[Coral Maestro]

Thank you for your kind words of encouragement.
Here are a few more that I made this afternoon.

[Wallys-Cast]

Excellent, pm me your address and I'll send you some green felt washers.

Wal.

[Mr B]

Lovely job, what a great idea and recycling too!
Fantastic!
Mr B

[Lea Dweller]

Well done, a great idea and a great result!

[Silfield]

They look superb

[Coral Maestro]

Excellent, pm me your address and I'll send you some green felt washers.

Wal.

That's very generous of you Wal. I think I'll follow the suggestion of a fellow TFF member and try to make my own if I can source some suitable felt. Otherwise you may hear back from me!