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Anyone ever make a fly fishing rod case? - Wipedout - 06-03-2017
My son wants to make a case for his fly fishing rod. I've seen some that are octagons like these
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But he likes something like this
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Thoughts?
RE: Anyone ever make a fly fishing rod case? - Arlin Eastman - 06-03-2017
It looks like simple stave construction or I should say not simple but cut at the angles and glued together and then the outside turned I am thinking.
A long time ago my Grandpa helped me make one for the bamboo 10 and 6 weight fly rods but it was a flat case. I still have one the rods and the very old reel. My Grandpa gave my younger brother the 6 weight and he had it a month before he broke it in so many pieces.
I know the fly rod is at least made 1910 or so.
RE: Anyone ever make a fly fishing rod case? - Angus - 06-04-2017
That would take some very deep hollowing if it had to be round all the way to the bottom. I guess it wouldn't have to be though. Stave construction is fairly easy. Just need a long enough shooting/sanding board to true the two halves to remove any cutting errors. Use hose clamps for the clamping.
RE: Anyone ever make a fly fishing rod case? - Wipedout - 06-04-2017
Thanks guys. How do you determine the angles on stave construction?
RE: Anyone ever make a fly fishing rod case? - Arlin Eastman - 06-04-2017
It is the same as making segments and how many staves you want to make. 4, 6, 8, 12? They each have their own degrees.
I am pretty sure a 6 stave is 30*, 8 stave is 22.5*, 10 stave is 18*, and 12 is 15*.
https://uniontownlabs.org/tools/stave/
RE: Anyone ever make a fly fishing rod case? - Souperchicken - 06-05-2017
Cool calculator link, Arlin.
RE: Anyone ever make a fly fishing rod case? - daddo - 06-06-2017
Wouldn't a pvc pipe be easier?
..... I said a bad word didn't I ? 
RE: Anyone ever make a fly fishing rod case? - Arlin Eastman - 06-06-2017
(06-05-2017, 11:51 AM)Souperchicken Wrote: Cool calculator link, Arlin.
I do not understand most of it but it looks like it has everything.
RE: Anyone ever make a fly fishing rod case? - Wipedout - 06-06-2017
(06-06-2017, 02:34 PM)daddo Wrote: Wouldn't a pvc pipe be easier?
of course it would - but then so would much of anything we do with woodworking