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Do You Want to Make Your Own Rod? 
Build It From Butt to Top? Wind It? 
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position to offer this service to 
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Unmounted Hand-Made Split Bamboo 
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Per Set Per Set 
For Fly Rods, 3-piece with 
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For Bait Bass Rods, 3-piece 
with extra tip 
For Bait Casting Rods, 2- 
piece with extra tip.... 
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tip 
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3-piece with extra tip... 
$ 6.75 
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8.00 
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15.00 9.00 
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Materials to complete above rods include full sets of 
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In writing to Advertisers mention Forest and Stream, 
An Imitation Birch Bark Canoe 
How to Give Your Canvas Craft a 
Decorative Appearance 
By W. A. BRADSHAW 
of what seems to be an “honest in- 
jun’ ” birch-bark canoe but is really 
only a pale-face imitation. The canoe 
was originally of a well-known New 
England make, but after about a dozen 
years of hard service, seemed nearly 
ready for the discard. The canvas cov- 
ering had rotted and the paint scaled 
off in great flakes. Finally, after it 
got a couple of finishing whacks from 
my launch propellor, I prepared to 
reduce it to kindling wood. 
On stripping off the canvas however, 
I was surprised to note the perfect 
condition of the woodwork, and at once 
resolved to salvage it. After covering 
the propellor wounds with a sheet of 
well-painted tin, a full-length sheet of 
double width canvas, a package of cop- 
per tacks and a tremendous lot of 
straining did the rest. For a time it 
looked as though it were going to have 
a bunch of fluffy ruffles at either end, 
but persistent sponging and stretching 
smoothed its wrinkled front and finally 
it was complete—white as the driven 
snow and smooth as a horn. 
As I sat contemplating it with well- 
earned satisfaction and ruminating on 
my canoe trips with the Indians of the 
northern wilds, I was seized with an 
inspiration to make a birch-bark of it. 
After absorbing a ruinous amount of 
buff paint it was finally ready for a 
top coat of oak floor paint, shaded and 
clouded with a handful of dry brown. 
The seams were chalked on and 
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like the 
real 
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Tt will identify you, 
“pitched” with a coat of coach black 
laid on thick with studied irregularity 
The water lily device was worked out 
in white and green, surrounded with a 
bright red ring segmented in black. 
The wale stitching was laid on in fan 
pattern with bright vari - colored 
“thongs.” A couple of coats of spar 
varnish to keep the paint from rub- 
bing completed the job. 
HE “Water Lily” in action looks ex- 
actly like a birch-bark and is easily 
the most picturesque craft in this vi- 
cinity. If canoe builders would take 
the hint and dress up some of their 
stock birch-bark fashion, it seems to me 
that they would find a ready market 
for them. 
(This is a splendid idea and should 
be welcomed by those of our readers 
who are attracted by the unusual in 
outdoor equipment. 
The canoe itself is a craft calcu- 
lated to please the eye by its subtle 
curves and symmetry of line. Unfor- 
tunately, however, we sometimes 
smother this beauty to a degree by 
cloaking our craft in unbecoming’ col- 
ors. In a fleet of canoes, one usually 
finds reds, greens and blues predomi- 
nating. Probably this is because they 
are standard factory products and 
their owners are not concerned with 
their color. In such a community the 
“Water Lily” should shine forth like 
a lone dandelion blossom on the lawn.— 
Editor.) 


