Zach Matthews
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Thanks RStouff-
One more that came up in the flyshop tonight: wine bottle holders often fit rod tubes.
Zach
Hey Frank-
I am just going to use untreated pine and sand it smooth and stain and varnish it. 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). 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. Here’s a schematic:
The net holder was a last minute idea, since I am currently hanging my net from a picture frame.
That is because the rod is still loaded and unloaded, three-dimensionally, the same way, it’s just that the *butt* of the rod is tracking a circle in the elliptical cast instead of a straight line.
Guys-
As far as manufacturing goes, I don’t have time to give you the complete rundown, but I have been writing an article that will appear a couple issues out in AA.
EXAMPLES:
See the black “yoke thing” and the 6 pockets? How about those exterior zingers! The hood is too tall (although at least Simms separated hood and collar).
The cuff design is guaranteed to both leak and catch flyline. Last, look at that ugly-ass patch!
This is a $400 coat!
This one is even worse:
Chalk me up as Not A Fan.
This one is a big improvement:
I like where Patagonia is going here, a lot. But! It is still way too short. Look how long the arms are in proportion to the body! If you wore this with jeans you’d have three inches of shirt above the belt buckle showing *before* you hit coat.
Geez.
ZachWell I went down to Best Buy and for $40 I bought a converter case that lets your old laptop harddrive slip into a metal sheath and become a USB-compatible portable harddrive.
BD-
Some studies were done showing law students did better on exams if they had laptops and you know how we are.
