APRIL What's on Your Workbench

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Just getting started on the wrapping but it is working just fine. I did add some soft leather for padding.
 
That is great Dave! I like that set up a lot. Does the leather let the rod slide nice? That is simple and clean.
 
The leather allows the rod to turn and slide without any danger of scratching. The tension of the rubber bands keep the rod in position when you remover your hands. A change I will make is to remove the several fixed screw eyes along the front and replace them with a single eye. The single eye will be mounted on a sliding block so that I can position the eye anywhere along the front edge rather than set locations. It works the way it is but I feel it would be easier to adjust the thread angle with a sliding eye, rather than adjust the rod location.
 
Yep, I can see that modification helping. I like that set up a lot. I have always wanted to assemble my own rod. Maybe I can do that as a class project with some students.
 
Very nice Dave. I built all my own rods 30+ years ago, maybe it's time to start up again. A lot of satisfaction building a rod and then catching a nice fish with it. Biggest musky I've caught was the first fish on my homemade bucktail rod. Nice job.
 
Good looking wraps. What are you using for thread tension? I can see the thread running over to that silver thing but I can't make out what it is.
 
What are you using for thread tension? I can see the thread running over to that silver thing but I can't make out what it is.
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Steve,

It is a standard thread tensioner that can be purchased from any tackle crafting supply. I happened to have one lying around. Some folks salvage one off a non working sewing machine.
 
What I used to use is a book. Run the thread thru the pages of a book and add weight to the top of the book to increase tension. Not fancy but worked just fine.
 
All~

Here are 2 "mantelpiece" birds I started in March. Been busy with rehabing both gunning stool - for myself and friends - and also re-habing a bunch of screens for my Mom's patio. I'm painting these Teal in oils - struggling to find a painting style with oils. Cannot quite jump into the wet-on-wet I'm used to with flatwork.

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Heard my first Spring Peepers and Wood Frogs last night (in shop at 2:00 AM dismantling my Mom's screens) and saw first Song Sparrow at feeder this morning.

All the best,

SJS
 
Steve I like both of those birds a lot!!

Peepers have been sporadic around here all dependent on afternoon temps
 
Pete, You probably used a yellow pages way back when HAHAHAHAHA. Wait a minute, thats what I used. Dogon it Dave now look what you started.
 
Seriously, I think you're right Tom, It WAS the yellow pages. LOL Heck, I've been thinking I need a new fly rod, maybe it's time to find the phone book again.
 
Living "tween" and not having a bench setup anyplace, I put this together over the weekend. Power arm at one end, machinist vise at the other. My plan is to sit in the middle facing whichever device with my formerly fat butt keeping things steady. Think it will work? Thankful for my new girl to let me bring most of my tools over to her place. I might slowly be able to take over a big shed at the back of the yard and have a real shop for the first time since my divorce too many years ago.

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