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and with fifty cents added for transportation charges, and 

 twenty-five cents for shellac and stain, the entire cost would 

 be three dollars and eighty-five cents, and with this material 

 you can make a rod worth anywhere from ten dollars to 

 fifteen dollars, and will have something to 'be proud of. I 

 have made no allowance for an extra tip for this rod, but if 

 you can stand it, you will do well to make the extra tip, for 

 the tip joint is the most likely to break in use. This piece 

 should be fitted with guides, but ferrule and adamant tip are 

 not needed, as in case you break the other tip piece you can 

 use the mountings on this one, It is true that you could also 

 use the guides, but the wrappings would have to be varnished 

 and you would not only have to wait until you could find 

 opportunity to do this work of mounting the guides, but 

 would also have to wait for the varnish, two coats, to dry. 

 If you have it wrapped, and guides fitted and all varnished 

 complete, all that you need to do to make it ready for fish- 

 ing in case you have an accident with the other, is to re- 

 move the ferrule and adamant tip, and place these fixtures 

 on the extra tip. This requires only a few minutes, and it 

 will be in condition for fishing immediately. To have this 

 extra tip will only cost about fifty cents more. 



The wood comes in square, rough strips. It is best to 

 get them both thicker and longer than needed when finished, 

 to work out any flaws that may appear, and I have made 

 allowance for this. To make perfectly tapered and per- 

 fectly round sticks require careful and slow work. It is 

 good to spend five minutes in measuring and inspecting for 

 each minute of actual work. You will want a very sharp 

 iron smooth plane, lightly set; a bastard-cut file, a flat mill- 

 cut file; some No. 00 emery paper, and some coarser, say 

 No. 1 ; a pair of outside measuring calipers that measure 

 to 64ths. of an inch, or if you can't get this you can use 

 plain calipers and a rule with these graduations ; a small 

 saw, a sharp pocket knife, a marking compass, and a bench 



