Rod Tube Rack design?
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🙂 There is a picture in the latest “Fly Fishing” catalog from Cabelas that shows a rod holder. You could probably add to, or modify that model.
😉 Pretty neat Zach. What kind of wood are you using? A draw under the lower part of the rack would be nice. Silver Doc
Hey Frank-
I am just going to use untreated pine and sand it smooth and stain and varnish it. Â I don’t have the tools to make a really nice looking cabinetry-style piece of work (i.e. no router, brad nailer may be a problem, no planer or biscuit cutter for sure). Â One day I hope to set up a shop in my house – I have lots of furniture ideas and occasionally I manage to pull them off.
The bottom is simply going to be a shelf with a 1×4 facing on it, with another 1×4 “minishelf” attached to the bottom of the facing and sticking out, then with a piece of trim or ripped 1×4 on the front of the minishelf facing upward to catch the rod butts. Â Here’s a schematic:
The net holder was a last minute idea, since I am currently hanging my net from a picture frame.
Zach,
Roughly what I built, except it’s built of cypress into a corner of the room. I used a door knob “hole saw” in a drill to make the holes, as you noted. Works great. If you line the holes with felt it’ll save wear and tear on tubes.
Best,
RStouff
LouisianaI took pics…I’ll have to wait until I get to the office in the morning to get them off my D100.
I drilled 5 holes to hold tubes, but I also left an open space against one wall. The rack is in a corner but not diagonal. With the long slot in the back I can use it for either additional tubes, for rod/reel combo cases, or even long guns.
I’ll put it up tomorrow.
Thanks RStouff-
One more that came up in the flyshop tonight: wine bottle holders often fit rod tubes.
Zach
Here’s what I did. It’s smaller than you designed, as you can see. Again, the back slot is kinda “universal” and at the moment is holding some antiques I’m reworking. It’s hard to see the felt in the round holes because I used a color that matched the wood as closely as possible, but it’s in there. I built the rod racks last spring (I have another in the opposite corner for non-fly tackle) in advance of sanding and refinishing the floors this spring.
Thanks for the compliment! Here’s a broad view of the room:
The desk in the foreground is for fly tying, but at the time the pic was taken you can see I was refinishing an old bamboo rod. The crafts in the background are my father’s (we are Chitimacha Tribal) and sit on a huntboard I built our of antique Douglas fir.
It’s my safe little haven. 🙂
Didn’t mean to hijack your thread. Briefly, we’re in south-central Louisiana, on the Chitimacha nation, and no, I don’t build rods but I’ve refinished a few old Montys and South Bends. I prefer cane but fish graphite too. Check out my website if you get a chance. It’s in my profile here. I’ve lurked on this board awhile now. 🙂
Thanks, man, that’s quite a compliment again, because I consider this site exceptional in design.
If you mean the boat in my site, it a bateau, the Cajun-French interpretation of the French flat-bottomed boat of Europe. My father built that boat in 1962, and I still have it and use it today in addition to my other boats. He built many, many of them as a sideline for extra money, for folks all over the southeast.
I am only a dozen miles or so from the coast, but have been redfishing only a few times, unsuccessfully thus far. I’m much more at home in the Atchafalaya River Basin with bass, bluegill and crappie.
If you ever get this way, we’ll head out into the basin for some fishing and photog’in. I love to bring my Nikon with me anytime I go out.
I should be finishing assembly of my rod rack tonight if my tools loan comes through (I lack a brad nailer).
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