Float boxes
- Slumption
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Float boxes
Anyone care to share their designs or photos for wooden float boxes? I'm about to give it a go...
- Olly
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Re: Float boxes
A float tube?
- Evert van der Plas
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Re: Float boxes
I made a few float tubes and boxes
Enjoy
Enjoy
- MGs
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I go with tubes. You can buy very large diameter cane at some larger garden centres. Cut below the node and you have an open ended tube. I use cork for the bungs. Cork sanding blocks should make a couple. Some catering supply outlets sell bungs which you could adapt
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Evert that photo is magical - what workmanship in/on those tubes superb stuff indeed Sir.
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- Olly
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I have had 4 made for me and will soon be ordering another. 1 went as an Auction prize - 1 as raffle prize and have 2 for my personal use. One with chub & barbel and one of the "rod builder" in the middle photo above.
All beautifully made - and an interesting gift to a fellow angler - with personal inscriptions!
All beautifully made - and an interesting gift to a fellow angler - with personal inscriptions!
- Evert van der Plas
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Olly wrote: ↑Tue Jan 01, 2019 8:09 pm I have had 4 made for me and will soon be ordering another. 1 went as an Auction prize - 1 as raffle prize and have 2 for my personal use. One with chub & barbel and one of the "rod builder" in the middle photo above.
All beautifully made - and an interesting gift to a fellow angler - with personal inscriptions!
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Real works of art. It's clever how the images are applied to the bamboo. Well done!
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- ReelMaker
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Good morning friends,those tubes are brillant ,the lengths fellow members go to are very inspirational to others who are trying there hand in making tackle,well done.It all started me off with making reels years ago after seeing a centre pin made from the material of a piston from a diesel lorry.Reelmaker.