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October, 1922 
TINKERING WITH YOUR 
TACKLE 
(Continued from page 475) 
down on the previous turns and make an 
unsightly-looking job; elastic bands are 
good to hold the guides in place while 
winding ; when one reaches them a slash 
of a safety razor blade or knife will 
remove the bands. 
The v/inding method and invisible 
fastening or knot for the thread ends 
(Fig. 7) has been so often described 
that it needs no repeating here, I think. 
The principal thing one will have to 
watch is to see that no threads overlap 
and to take care that the threads are 
kept close together so that the wood or 
bamboo does not show between the turns. 
One may use the thumb nail or a steel 
edge at times as the winding progresses 
to keep the turns packed closely to- 
gether. See, too, that the hands are 
kept clean so that perspiring fingers will 
not discolor the light-colored silks. 
One should coat the windings, before 
varnishing, with some sort of “filler,” so 
that the silk will not turn color when 
the varnish is applied. There are many 
solutions that one may use for this pur- 
pose — I have used various things, such 
as white mucilage thinned down, gum 
arabic dissolved in water, ambroid made 
very thin, banana oil, a mixture of col- 
lodium and ether, and the store-bought 
preparations. 
It should be borne in mind when using 
anything as a filler that may contain 
ether or alcohol, that a bit on any var- 
nished surface will eat into it and turn 
it white, so look out for the table top 
or the varnish on the rod if repairing 
a winding. Before using the mixture, 
whatever it may be, it is a good thing 
to experiment a bit to see how it will 
behave on the finished work. Take a 
stick and run on a few windings of dif- 
ferent colors ; if the solution is mixed 
just right go ahead on the rod windings. 
In applying the varnish it is better to 
rise several coats, somewhat thin, rather 
than a few laid on thick, and the work 
should be done in a fairly warm room 
free from floating dust. It need hardly 
be said that a water-proof varnish 
should be used — if one does not care to 
use or cannot obtain a varnish from the 
tackle dealers, Valspar is excellent. 
Again let me emphasize the importance 
of taking care in the matter of windings. 
Of course, pretty windings won’t make 
a poor rod a good one, but if the rod is 
a good one the appearance of the wind- 
ings may make or mar it as far as ap- 
pearance goes. Don’t be afraid of the 
color preservative — when one thinks 
there has been enough applied it is well 
to put a couple of more coats over the 
silk. It is better to be over-lavish than 
to have to do the winding over again or 
to see half of the turns bright in the 
original colors and the rest darkened by 
the varnish. 
A home-made rod will be much more 
carefully looked over than the one pur- 
chased already made — so lots of pains 
should be taken with the work. Then 
one may say, “I did it and it is good.” 
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