Purchased Transmit and MarsEdit this week. First Mac app upgrades I’ve bought in a long while.
I’ve started posting to my blog again after a four year hiatus.
Royal and Gray Wulff tied last night. Most interesting thing about this is the reflection of the underside of the flies on the white surface. Sorta shows what they might look like to a trout. #flyfishing
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New Ladle Handle
Here’s a small project to replace a handle on a Chinese-style ladle. The handle I had to replace was a cheap bit of pine pushed in to the metal part of the ladle. Instead of trying to replicate that, I decided to make a handle that would house the ladle. So I grabbed a scrap of walnut, cut it down to size with my rip saw, and then scratched my head for a while figuring out how to secure it.
My solution was to first drill the hole that would house the ladle. I locked it in my vise and used a brace I recently picked up for a few bucks to drill the hole. I also got an auger file recently and had just sharpened up some bits I had also picked up at the local flea market … so I was eager to try it out. It worked surprisingly well.
Then I took a length of 3/4" oak dowel and used a spokeshave to shave it down a bit so I could mount the new handle on the face of my workbench to work on it. I shaped the handle with spokeshave, chisels, and a file.
This is the handle in rough form mounted on a dowel. I used a chisel to slim it down.
Then I worked on it with the spokeshave.
I tapered it with the spokeshave, then smoothed out the rough edges with a file and chamfered the edges with a chisel. I finished it off with some flexible sand paper.
And here it is attached the to ladle.
