32 FISHING TACKLE 



silk, A is usually the smallest size obtainable, 

 and it will answer, although it is too coarse for 

 nice winding. The larger the rod, the coarser 

 may the silk be, and for salmon and salt water 

 rods I have used button-hole silk for guide and 

 ferrule windings. For trout rods OO is the best 

 size for all windings. 



When all of the frayed windings have been 

 renewed, coat the silk, and it alone, with the 

 best grain alcohol shellac, and while this is 

 fresh, pass it over a thin flame, turning the rod 

 rapidly meanwhile. This will cement the wind- 

 ings and the shellac, and make a neat finish. 

 Give the windings a second coat of shellac, and 

 when this is dry, cover the windings with coach 

 varnish, using a fine-pointed brush and letting 

 the varnish extend a trifle beyond the winding 

 on either side. 



If guides must be rewound, fasten them in 

 place temporarily with waxed thread and be- 

 gin to wind with silk toward the guide, not 

 away from it. In this way the end of guide- 

 seat is covered first and the windings will be 

 even, whereas if you begin next the guide and 

 wind away from it, the silk will slip off the 

 end of the guide-seat. Where the guide is 

 to be wound with two or more colors, as red 

 with green edgings, the two outside edgings 



