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aniceguy · Adult Joined: 25 Nov 2004 Posts: 82

thanks for the pic Brian I have a batch drying as we speak I hope to paint them in the am but it looks like a little bump of rain and we all know what rain means

aniceguy · Adult Joined: 25 Nov 2004 Posts: 82

well the next batch not perfect but getting better. I found that if I used a threaded bar that was smaller in size It worked quite nice and was fairly stable once again thanks

Bow_buster · Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2005 6:53 pm Post subject:

Looks really good. Keep it up.

Randy

aniceguy · Adult Joined: 25 Nov 2004 Posts: 82

Thanks Randy quite some time before I get good at it but it was a swwet feeling seeing my floats go down

Chromebuck · Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2005 6:41 pm Post subject:

Here are a series of images that I have in contribution to this great thread. They include the following:

The mandrel insertion 2X2X6

Hand shaping

The lathe...Craftsman hobby lathe with a custom chuck all under $150.00. Paint cans stabilize the ShopVac nozzle.

The final product...West Coast selection of jumbo floats that include, for scale, a very interesting 4" silicon impregenated aluminum backplate. A BC native who resides on the Vedder River tried his hand at producing a reel amply named The Vedder River Supreme...Never made it to market, but he had a box full of backplates we could help ourselves too. Of course there are a pile of Waynes BC Supremes in the mix...Thanks Wayne and TM!

~CB

aniceguy · Adult Joined: 25 Nov 2004 Posts: 82

very nice keith ..........I like the lathe is that a catalogue order item only or is it in the retail centers

Bow_buster · Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2005 9:10 pm Post subject:

The . cleaner set up is a stroke of genius Idea

. I wish I would have thought of that years ago so I wouldn't have to breathe in the saw dust and get my allergies goin' Sad

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Those are some nice floats you have pictured Very Happy

Randy

Chromebuck · Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2005 10:51 pm Post subject:

Ya, not sure how the ./paint can thing ever came together. After looking at them next to the lathe on a shelf for two years it finally dawned on me that it was viable makeshift way of securing the nozzle.

The lathe was a catalogue item exclusively. Have heard that they no longer sell it, but cannot verify that. I recall purchasing it through the Sears online catalogue Louis. The chuck I got at Ace Hardware.

Jeffm80 · Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2005 8:58 pm Post subject:

here's another link w/ some good instruction
http://www.msocustomrods.com/MSOCustomRods/Hand_Turned_Floats/How_to_turn_floats.htm