Pictures

The milling of the grips on the locknut.

This is a homemade distribution table.

Manufacturing the gearwheel for the clicker- mechanism.

The gearwheel and some other parts.

The author behind his small lathe, making a reel part.

The counterbalance weight and the turning knob shaft.

Rough sawing of the endplate.

The finished endplate.

Here you see the line guide and the endplate mounted on the faceplate.

Turning the knob on a woodturning lathe.

Turning of the grips and the overall shape

A nice looking knob made of diamond wood

Here you see the clicker system with the gearwheel.

Here you see the plastic ring on the locknut.

Two more weight reduction holes in the fish shape head, for a better look.

Making two small recesses for easier handling of the O-rings.

Cutting the O-ring slots in the bearing shaft.

Here you see the O-rings in place.

Computer animation of the fly reel to compare different color combinations.

Other side of the reel in computer animation.

Computer animation in exploded view with most of the parts.

All the parts are anodised and ready for assembling.

And finally we have our finished fly reel!

It is a small reel!

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