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The Gun Cabinet. 
T HE gun cabinet, shown in the photograph, 
was made in odd evening moments with a 
hammer, a saw, a plane, and a chisel. It 
is made of % inch white pine boards and fin¬ 
ished with three coats of walnut stain. The 
writer is far from being an accomplished cabinet 
maker, and he was rather surprised to see how 
simple a matter it was to build this cabinet. It 
is ten inches deep, and a little over five feet high; 
the left compartment is about sixteen inches 
wide and the right one about twelve inches. The 
rack to hold the gun barrels is about three feet 
from the bottom, with oval holes lined with felt 
to fit various styles of guns. As may be seen 
from the photograph, ammunition and a pistol 
are kepf in the upper right hand compartment; 
cleaning .rods, oil, etc., in the upper left; guns 
and fishing rods under the latter; while rubber 
boots and hunting coat hang in the lower right 
hand part. Strange as it may sound, the writer’s 
first idea in making this cabinet was to have a 
place to hang his rubber boots; nothing ruins 
boots quicker than standing them in a closet; it 
literally adds years to their lives to keep them 
hung up off the floor. 
Something .that does not show in the photo¬ 
graph are the small brads on the inside of the 
doors from which to hang sections of fishing 
rods; rods will never develop a set if they are 
kept this way. It might be well to add that the 
bottom of the upper compartments is lined with 
felt, so that revolvers may be laid in them with¬ 
out danger of scratching. 
The Fly Book. 
method of holding the flies on the pages has not 
yet been patented, so go to it; said method is 
easily understood from a glance at the illustra¬ 
tion. The leaves are fastened to the cover with 
the common female hairpin! I should suggest 
the use of split rings instead, and then the book 
would be “loose-leaf” and the capacity for this 
would be unlimited. 
The Line Dryer and Dry Fly Oil Container 
really need no explanation. A few sticks of 
wood, a piece of brass rod or heavy wire for 
an axle and a pen knife will produce the former 
in half an hour. Two strips of leather, a button, 
a safety pin, and the small bottle in which dry 
fly oil is sold are the requisites for the manu¬ 
facture of the latter. 
The Reel Bag 
was made of the same old leather table cover. 
The shape of this bag can be made to suit the 
reel to be kept in it. Heavy waxed shoe thread 
was used to sew the bag, and ordinary tape for 
the draw strings. 
The Dry Fly Box 
was made from a tin cigarette box—this particu¬ 
lar one contained fifty “Rameses,” and cork 
rings, such as are used in the manufacture of 
rod handles. Two small holes were punched 
with an awl under each cork and ordinary pins 
were pushed through them and bent over on the 
inside. The corks on the bottom of the box 
should not be directly under those on the cover 
for then the wings of the flies will interfere. 
Snelled flies are kept in the box and, therefore, 
the corks are at the ends, eyed flies are on the 
cover and these corks can be closer together. 
The writer is going to cover this box with either 
leather or cloth on the next rainy Sunday. 
Appendix. 
If you need a new sling on your creel, get some 
How the Pages in the Fly Book Are Made-The 
Slits in the Celluloid Are Made on Both 
Sides of Each Page (Only Shown on 
One Side in Illustration). 
Few of us have pocketbooks sufficiently well 
lined to enable us to purchase our ideal fly book. 
After going through all the tackle catalogues and 
wistfully gazing at the books that would hold 
large numbers of flies and leaders, the writer 
came to the conclusion that if he wanted one of 
these books he would have to make it. The re¬ 
sult, which is not exactly handsome, but which 
is extremely practical, may be seen in the pic¬ 
ture of this book. The cover is made from an 
old leather table cover; the leaves are celluloid; 
the pads between the leaves are leather. Sheet 
celluloid may be bought in any thickness and 
color. The leader pocket is also celluloid of the 
transparent varietv and bound with tape. The 
women’s skirt belting in the proper width, and 
fashion the sling, to suit your own ideas. 
If you are given to practising casting in your 
back yard take an old fly—White Miller for bare 
ground. Scarlet Ibis when there is snow—and 
cut the point of the hook off just below the barb. 
You will not catch any unwelcome shrubbery if 
you do this. 
The venerable table cover afore-mentioned 
supplied the wherewithal to produce the auto¬ 
matic pistol holster—the pistol is automatic, no’ 
the holster. The inside of the latter is well 
greased with anti-rust oil, and makes a good 
protector for the weapon when not in use. 
E. V. C. 
