22 FISHING TACKLE 



A solid cork handle is another alternative. The 

 butt piece can be shaped as first mentioned and then 

 some picked cylindrical corks or large bottle corks of 

 i inches or if inches diameter bored out in the 

 centre and slipped on to the butt and glued up as 

 closely as possible. 



With the aid of a rough file and glass paper the 

 handle can then be shaped. To obtain a neat, velvety 

 finish, cut a sheet of size .1. fine glass paper into a 

 i-inch strip the full length of the paper, then work 

 the paper transversely across the handle. 



Winch fittings and ferruling can be worked up from 

 brass tubing of the requisite diameter. To make the 

 ferrules wider at one end than the other, place on a 

 mandril or tapered steel bar and beat all round it with 

 a hammer, giving gentle but quickly repeated taps 

 evenly distributed. Ferrule ends should always be a 

 little wider to prevent the necessity for cutting and 

 filing the wood to take the ferrule (or if the end of 

 the ferrule is turned in a lathe or filed, very thin teeth 

 can be cut with an old pair of fine-pointed scissors, as 

 shown on Fig. VI., and the strain will be distributed 

 with little fear of a fracture at the end of the ferrule). 

 This undercutting will invariably cause a fracture. 

 Most rods are fitted with a dowel or tener at the 

 termination of the counter or male ferrule (see 

 Fig. III.), and a corresponding socket should be 

 drilled very accurately in the centre of the wood joint. 

 Method of drilling the hole for the tener is illustrated 

 in Fig. IV. The teners can be covered with brass 

 tubing, as a plain wood tener, if allowed to get wet, 

 sometimes swells, causing the joint to stick fast. For 

 small teners on trout or bottom rods a solid brass 

 tener cut from brass wire may be driven in when 



