Not so much a catapult ...

Other traditional odds and sods can be found in here.
Post Reply
User avatar
AshbyCut
Honorary President
Posts: 10142
Joined: Sun May 06, 2012 1:27 am
11
Location: North Warwickshire

Not so much a catapult ...

Post by AshbyCut »

... more a work of art.

No matter how many times I go to The Redditch Tackle Fair with the avowed intention of holding onto all my folding beer tokens ... there's always 'something' which catches my eye and steals my heart !!!

Today was no exception ... and I returned home with this wonderful hand crafted catapult fashioned by Mr. Andy Batchelor ... the last one of 6 he created last year.

Ash was formed into a graceful curve for the 'action end,' and a centrepiece of Oak has been overlain with pieces of Olive Wood to fashion the handle.

Thank you Andy, Sir ... it fits into my hand as if it had been custom made for me !!!

Image
"Beside the water I discovered (or maybe rediscovered) the quiet. The sort of quiet that allows one to be woven into the tapestry of nature instead of merely standing next to it." Estaban.

User avatar
Troydog
Tench
Posts: 2888
Joined: Sun Jun 25, 2017 8:02 pm
6
Location: Hereford
Contact:

Re: Not so much a catapult ...

Post by Troydog »

Very nice indeed.....
Trouble is, the fish just don't read the books......
John Harding

User avatar
LuckyLuca
Barbel
Posts: 4792
Joined: Mon Jul 02, 2012 10:20 am
11
Location: Oxfordshire

Re: Not so much a catapult ...

Post by LuckyLuca »

I should have known!
The grin like a school boy with his first catapult was a tell tale sign.

It is a beauty 👍
I walked across an empty land
I knew the pathway like the back of my hand
I felt the earth beneath my feet
Sat by the river and it made me complete.

User avatar
Capebreton
Perch
Posts: 448
Joined: Thu Jul 25, 2013 5:28 pm
10

Re: Not so much a catapult ...

Post by Capebreton »

Beautiful

Paul D

Re: Not so much a catapult ...

Post by Paul D »

That is a rather fine catapult, lovely. :Hat:

User avatar
Richard Jackson
Brown Trout
Posts: 1493
Joined: Wed May 04, 2016 3:16 pm
7
Location: Newark on trent

Re: Not so much a catapult ...

Post by Richard Jackson »

That is a fine catapult
I spend most of my life fishing the Rest i just waste

User avatar
Aitch
Pike
Posts: 6193
Joined: Sat Mar 23, 2013 11:03 am
11
Location: The Shades, Essex

Re: Not so much a catapult ...

Post by Aitch »

I have one of those, although the wood is much darker... I won it in a raffle at the TFF AGM at the Lands End Public House a few years back... I still use mine, although I have had to replace the elastic a couple of times... its still a delight to use....
Just one more cast love, and I'll be on me way home

Leave nothing but footprints, take nothing but pictures and memories

User avatar
Gudgeon Basher
Dace
Posts: 163
Joined: Thu Jan 18, 2018 9:45 pm
6
Location: Deepest Darkest Essex

Re: Not so much a catapult ...

Post by Gudgeon Basher »

Now that is a thing of beauty, I'm a tad jealous :drool:

Post Reply

Return to “Other Traditional Items of Tackle”