5 Years to Cure Delamination
Posted: Thu Nov 02, 2023 12:27 pm
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This was my original thread about this 9 ft Sowerbutts small river rod that I posted over 5 years ago and Woohoo I have finally finished it. Why 5 years I hear you ask? Well the handle was a mess because someone in the past had tried to stabalise it with ?????. The top section was whipped every 5mm in 3 colours and the ferrules needed resetting. It appeared a very daunting task and one I was not looking forward to doing, if ever. But a couple of weeks ago I bit the bullet and started.
So ferrules reset, handle sympathetically restored and both sections rewhipped in ONE colour, almost. It is tipped with green wraps. I have added an homage to the original 3 colours on the bottom section. The black was the original guide wrap colour. The top section close whipping was every 5mm so I had to find a process to use 3 turns only as the rod would have looked completely wrapped in Garnet. The process involved 2 turns of thread, add the pull through and then one more turn before pulling it through. You could breath on it and it would unravel so as soon as the 3 turns were finished I pulled them tight and immediately sealed them. This meant only doing a few at a time at various stages of the rod. 2 Weeks later they were done. Finally a good few coats of water based silk varnish and here it is finished. It has a wonderful balanced through action which is why I have described it a small river rod.
Mr Sowerbutts, you rock.
I have also finished a Homers Cycle/Poachers Rod that has only taken 4 years, I will list that later.
This was my original thread about this 9 ft Sowerbutts small river rod that I posted over 5 years ago and Woohoo I have finally finished it. Why 5 years I hear you ask? Well the handle was a mess because someone in the past had tried to stabalise it with ?????. The top section was whipped every 5mm in 3 colours and the ferrules needed resetting. It appeared a very daunting task and one I was not looking forward to doing, if ever. But a couple of weeks ago I bit the bullet and started.
So ferrules reset, handle sympathetically restored and both sections rewhipped in ONE colour, almost. It is tipped with green wraps. I have added an homage to the original 3 colours on the bottom section. The black was the original guide wrap colour. The top section close whipping was every 5mm so I had to find a process to use 3 turns only as the rod would have looked completely wrapped in Garnet. The process involved 2 turns of thread, add the pull through and then one more turn before pulling it through. You could breath on it and it would unravel so as soon as the 3 turns were finished I pulled them tight and immediately sealed them. This meant only doing a few at a time at various stages of the rod. 2 Weeks later they were done. Finally a good few coats of water based silk varnish and here it is finished. It has a wonderful balanced through action which is why I have described it a small river rod.
Mr Sowerbutts, you rock.
I have also finished a Homers Cycle/Poachers Rod that has only taken 4 years, I will list that later.
