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Read the article Tom's Line Winder here
Reel cleaning with flushing water.
Fly line with cracks on the surface
A selection of cleaners and a softening agent
My old cleaning tool for years
One of a few line winders you can buy
The two project-line winders
Project 1 drawing
Details
3D CAD rendering
3D-Cad drawing of project 1 line winder
The disk is made on a small wood-lathe
The line winder disk for the line-storage
The clamping screw that hold’s the bearing unit
The vertical and the horizontal block
Aluminium nut
One of the reel holder rings
In the lathe
In progress
The finished and assembled reel holder
The finished reel rings
The reel holder
The reel seat underway
The bearing bushing glued inside the line winder disk
The bearing shaft with the O-rings and the clamping screws
The shaft with the clamping screws and the distance rings
The clamping screw
Rubber ring
The little hole in the disk
The little hole on the outside
The gearwheel
The clicker pin
The clamping screw
The clamping screws
Making grooves
The turning knob
The turning knob mounted on the disk
Plastic distance rings
Metal ring
A detail from the reel holder with the cut-away for the reel in the ring
Seen from the reel-holder side
Seen from the side of the line disk
The mahogany line winder painted with a satin glossy varnish and ready to use for line cleaning
The linewinder in practice with a piece of tissue and some mild soap or line cleaner
The detail-drawing for the MDF wood line winder project
The three discs that will form the line winder disc
The central bolt
Screwing th discs together
The disc and the block
The cylindrical pieces are glued in the reel-holder, the dowel not
The reel holder you can easily buy in a fish-shop or on the internet
The reel-holder and the wooden cylindrical pieces with the holes for the dowels
Dowels
Reel seat parts
The vertical support block
Baseplate
Underside of the reel-holder support
The complete reel-holder assembly ready for positioning on the base plate
The reel-holder and the vertical support block positioned on the base plate
The disc mounted on the vertical support-block with the special bolt
A little bit of shape
Glued dowel
The knob on the disc
Cutting the washers
Plastic distance rings
The line clip in close-up on the disc.
The line clip in practice with a leader point
The assembled MDF wood line winder
Looks good to me!
The end result is very good, a nice shine
With a special wood-wax we can finish the MDF wood, so it will look like mahogany
Rubber feet glued on the baseplate with Bison-glue or double sided tape
The rubber feet are cut from a anti-slip rubber foil
The MDF wood line winder in practice
The author with a nice rainbow trout! Caught on a distance spot with a good shooting (clean) flyline
Tom Biesot