some more float tubes
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some more float tubes
a couple of pics of some float tubes made to orders.1 with yew and purple heart wood insert and the other 2,1 with spalted beech end cap and the other with london plain,a different bamboo float tube to go on show soon that i'm making,one end takes split shot in 2 built cane split shot holders,hooks and plummet with a spalted beech turned screw end cap and the other end of the tube takes floats up to 8 1/2" long also with a spalted beech screw end cap.
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Re: some more float tubes
Stunning Barney!
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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.
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.
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Re: some more float tubes
Very cool Mr Barney
Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish
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Re: some more float tubes
the fellow who wanted the long alloy tube wanted it to put his pva stocking in it
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Re: some more float tubes
Plenty of timber around here if you want to pop down to Surrey, Barney?
There was three trees down just going North out of the village today!
I was a little concerned that you'd branched out into lingerie at first there, then I remembered what pva was......
There was three trees down just going North out of the village today!
I was a little concerned that you'd branched out into lingerie at first there, then I remembered what pva was......
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Re: some more float tubes
Stunning as usual Barney.
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Re: some more float tubes
Lovely tubes Barney
Not a fish was visible that first time I visited Beechmere; an utter
stillness brooded over the place and I felt the strange and sinister atmosphere which, so the story goes,
has been the cause of several suicides.’
BB – Confessions of a Carp Fisher
stillness brooded over the place and I felt the strange and sinister atmosphere which, so the story goes,
has been the cause of several suicides.’
BB – Confessions of a Carp Fisher
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Re: some more float tubes
thanks Phil,i'm the fellow you gave permission to use some of your line drawings on the float tubes i make,nice to meet up with you on here,
regards
Dave
regards
Dave
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Re: some more float tubes
i'm starting to blush now
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