Broadbill rig

Vince and Jeff, thank you both, it's much appreciated. I wish I had the talent of the great makers on this site, mine are crude by comparison. But it's fun to hunt over a rig of your own making so it's all good.
 
hey,SJ!! i live about 15 minutes from oneida lake if you need some storage! be happy to bathe them often.

bruce
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Thanks for the offer but I'm afraid this rigs dance card is full. The fellow who's cellar they will fill assures me it's climate controlled for their comfort. LOL
 
A very neat setup! That would be an awesome piece of machinery to have.
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I'll never make decoys like yours Bob, but it is handy to make a rig in a couple weeks after work. Interestingly there are at least three similar machines in the town where I live, all used for decoys.
 
Wow, that is so cool. I think you really honored your Dad by doing this. Excellent rig, can't wait to see it on the water.
 
In 1964, the summer that I got out of high school, I went clamming on the Great south Bay. My friends dad had a wood shop where they made large quantities of wood items for other shops. They did everything from wooden sailboat hulls for model boat companies to intricate eagle claw table legs for high end furniture manufacturers. There were about ten of those big duplicating machines in their shop. My buddies dad saw some of the surfboards I made and some of the clam boats I had built, and persuaded me into coming to his shop and trying their work. I adapted quickly and soon was making very intricate pieces out of some real exotic woods. The process started out with a carpenter roughing out the blanks, then I would chuck them up in the machine and start out with a big pattern follower and big cutters, Gradually you would work your way down to smaller followers and cutters until the follower and cutters were the size of the tip of a pencil. At least this was the process for the table legs. This was a very rewarding job at first, but soon became monotonous for a 17 year old that had the salt water of the Great South Bay in his veins and the independent llifestyle of clamming on his mind. Now if they were making broadbill stool. that might have been a different story! Good memories! Regards. Rich
 
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