Not quite Evert!

[LuckyLuca]

Inspired by the work of Every Van Der Plas I bought a sorry looking latch fronted wood reel to have a play with. Conversations with Evert inspired me to believe that with care and patience the reel could once again be back in use bankside.







A strip and clean showed that the reel was basically sound but heavily soiled. The ratchet pawl badly worn, oh and those holes in the back plate!
A couple of days ago I was mixing some epoxy for a nother project so I thought I'd give it a try on the reel rim.
Much polishing, filing, cleaning and colour matching later I have a reel which should appear on a rod in the near future.

[Lea Dweller]

An excellent effort, you should be pleased with your progress down the restoration path!

[Chavender]

very nice.

[Vole]

Good work! Nice, shallow arbour there - is the back of the spool hollowed out for lightness, Sheffield style?

[Wallys-Cast]

Careful Steve, those old wooden pins can get really addictive.

Wal.

[Evert van der Plas]

Well done Lucky Luca it is addictive to restore the cheap wooden pins so i think it is not the last one for you :-)

[LuckyLuca]

Well done Lucky Luca it is addictive to restore the cheap wooden pins so i think it is not the last one for you :-)

You are probably right Evert. Although I expect I'll revisit this one a few times to practice and see if I can improve