FISHING TACKLE AND HOW TO MAKE IT. 



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carpenter's shop for any vise-work he has to do. 



First of all you should get three or four — three at least, 



good planes. I prefer the Bailey iron planes — and so does 



every rod-maker of my acquaintance — and the sizes are those 



marked in the catalogue of the 

 Stanley Rule and Level Co. as 

 No. I, 6-inch; No. 5, 14-inch; and 

 No. 50, 3 I -2-inch — ^the three 

 costing in all about seven dollars. 

 These are by far the easiest for 

 the novice to manipulate and keep 

 sharp. 



Files of several degrees of cut, 

 and wood-rasps, sand-paper, bro- 

 ken glass, and some pieces of an 

 old saw-blade, make up the really 

 indespensable tools. The ma- 

 terial — lance-wood — can be pro- 

 cured of Chubb, and he is very 

 particular in picking out good 

 pieces. 



The first thing to do, when one 



has decided to build anything — 



from a hog-pen to a railway bridge 



— is to get out a working plan of 



the task to be done. My own 



usage always has been to take a 



piece of sheet-brass or copper, and 



true the upper edge of it square. 



I then begin to think out the 



Suppose we say ten feet long over 



all. The handle is to be ten inches, which, deducted from 



122 inches (ten feet) leaves 112 of rod now to be made. 



How thick through should it be.' Say, at the butt- 



1/3 IN. 



Fig. 19. 



dimensions of the rod. 



