Second new batch

The second set of finished floats from those awaiting completion in the shed.

A bodied waggler, balsa on cane, and matching crucian waggler of balsa on pheasant quill. I quite like the way the pheasant quill has turned out, it seems difficult to tell if the quill is going to show a pleasing pattern or not before the herl is removed.

Another worthwhile read

Whilst the part-finished floats seemed too good to discard but still a bit of a burden at first, it appears the spindle on the lathe I use to turn bodies now has an unacceptable amount of run out and as such is out of commission, so the old stock awaiting completion is now a blessing until a repair is possible or a replacement lathe sourced.

Every cloud and all that, I feel a new investment for the shed coming on....

New floats

Seems like the most frequent here is going to become the one where I try and justify the break in blogging. So usual stuff going on, changing priorities, other hobbies, blah.

Needless to say I shall do my best to keep updates as regular as possible. In the meantime, I've decided to try and finish the nearly sixty floats (some of which can be seen in the earlier photo below) that I've started but not yet finished, in a state from nothing more than a body and stem to just requiring the whipping and varnish.

So first up is the five floats in the following picture, a balsa on cane gudgeon float, two cork on cane grayling bobbers, a cork on cane Avon and a cork-bodied alloy-stemmed Avon (not a combination I recall seeing a large number of I admit...)

More to follow shortly


hopefully