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finer article with tapered hood and welted band will cost 

 forty cents for the nickel-plated kind and seventy-five cents 

 for German silver. As stated before, these prices are likely 

 to vary somewhat, depending on who you buy from and it is 

 best to have catalogs from several dealers when making out 

 your order. The reel bands described and recommended 

 may be difficult to get in German silver, as few dealers 

 carry them. 



For guides you can use either the snake guides or two 

 ring German silver tie guides. You will want seven of 

 these and they should be of the three smallest sizes, the 

 three nearest the tip of the smallest size, the two next of a 

 size larger, and the next two a size larger still. Then on 

 the butt piece, close to the ferrule you will want to mount a 

 small adamant or imitation agate guide, and you will want a 

 three-ring adamant tip, 3/32 inch size. These guides and 

 tip, the complete outfit, will cost in the neighborhood of sixty 

 cents. 



The other materials required are a stick of ferrule 

 cement, costing about fifteen cents; a bottle of rod varnish, 

 costing twenty-five cents; and two spools of winding silk at 

 fifteen cents per spool. These may be any color desired. 

 These are the only materials required, but if you want to 

 keep the wrapping a nice color you will want a small quantity 

 of white shellac to apply before varnishing. Varnishing the 

 wrapping will darken it considerably. Also, if you use betha- 

 bara for second joint and tip and ash for the butt you must 

 stain the latter before varnishing, as bethabara is a very 

 dark wood and ash is white. I am not sure that you can 

 stain it to the exact color, but advise that you see a paint 

 store man about this staining. It doesn't matter a bit, though, 

 whether it is the exact shade of the other wood or not. 



Now, as I figure it, the material for this rod, using 

 bethabara and ash, the latter of which you can get some- 

 where near home, will cost about three dollars and ten cents, 



