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Outstanding! Thanks everyone - I truly appreciate your ideas. I've invested almost two years in this project and will be giving the rod to my brother this spring, Lord willing. I'm tempted to try some (or all) of these ideas, but for safety I'm thinking a wood sleeve glued over metal components woul...

I'm wondering how functional and durable these "cap and ring" components - typically constructed of nickel silver - would be if they were made from wood. Would they adequately preform the task of holding a fly fishing reel to the reel seat? Would they last 50 years? What woods would you re...

Thanks Alec!
This is my first rod and after two years, I'm finally on the home stretch. I certainly could not have gotten this far without the ShopSmith.
I'd love to see some of your finished rods if you have a site/pics.

Thanks Troy. I plan to make a few of these per year for a long time to come.

Forgive my ignorance here, but I'm nearing completion on a bamboo fly fishing rod and I don't know the best way to create the mortise on a real seat I turned with my ShopSmith. Can someone help me out? Here is what I'm going for... (The mortise is used to accept the real foot - one end of the reel f...

Yes, 10E/R... That goes to show you how much I know. :D Thanks for the replies. There were no accessories available with it (although my friend seemed to indicate that he was looking around the garage for "stuff that went with it") and from the cell-phone pictures I saw, it looked to be in...

Hey all,

Quick question. A friend just called from a garage sale with a Mark 10. It appears to be in good shape. Owner says it's from the 1950's. He's asking $450.

My friend wants to know if that's a fair price, and as a Mark V owner, I have no idea.

Any thoughts?

Thanks for the replies - very helpful to find another thread on the same topic! I'm going to do a little more research/application and will update this thread when I know more. Charlese, in the other thread you mention a Sawdust video that I couldn't find. Do you happen to remember which one it was?...

I hand make fly rods out of bamboo and have a question for you guys. Currently I take a round culm of bamboo, split it into roughly 5' long strips that are approximately 1/4" wide. I then hand plane those 1/4" wide strips on two sides to create an equilateral triangle. Does anyone know how...

Mike,

If everything is right and true between the headstock, belt cover, and way tubes, this may be one of those weird times in life when the CORRECT fix IS the EASY fix.

PS - Thanks for the new warning stickers! I received them and affixed one last night.