Thread: LET RESTORE BEGIN

Good Friday morning to everyone. I want to thank everyone for reading, commenting and following along on my adventure/ mis-adventures of working on my boat. I haven't done much this last week or so as I stated before as I had some honey does and other stuff to do and this got shuffled to the back burner for a bit. Before I get started on this again, I want to share a bit of an other area I stumbled into in the area of fishing. Now we all have had a rod or two, at some given time or other, that the eye windings have needed some care, or replacement. I have an old rod I believe belonged to my now deceased brother I found at my sisters house. She said she was saving it for me. Well after being banged around and moved across the country, California to Florida, by her, it is in dire need of some new windings. I have played with the thought of making a rod or two also, so I used some scraps I had out in the shop, then visited my local Lowe's for the hardware, and came up with this,.
Now it's not real fancy or nothing, and yes I know the tensioner upright is off a bit, but I think it will fix up my old rods real nice, and a couple of longer ones I've been wanting to see if I could make. Nice little diversion from the boat build and productive at the same time. Thanks for looking, and as always, comments are welcome. Eric, AKA "jamesdean".