The Ultimate Fly Box

[Sean Freeman]

Sorry to further derail the thread but would love to request something similar to sagecirca. How hard would something like the first pic in this gallery be to make? I asked on the big forum but never thought of asking on here. If you're unable then no bother!

Cheers

https://imgur.com/a/BEy6BjU

[Inchlaggan]

Sean

That one is a bit beyond me in terms of size (how many bloody rods do you have?)
Fly boxes are fine and Sagecirca's holder is possible, but you are talking furniture.
The price of decent timber has gone through the roof, most furniture is laminated pine, variously faced, (plywood) or veneered MDF.
These are very difficult for the lone artisan to deal with.
The "solid oak" furniture adverts are legally correct, but a single leg on a dining table is made by machine-jointing manyl pieces together.
A 4" square 3'6" length of decent oak to be turned into a table leg would probably cost in excess of £100.
Mahogany is no longer mahogany but Sapele, and teak is not available.
You can buy a very nice Fender guitar from the US of A with a fine rosewood fretboard. Don't go touring in California though, they will seize the guitar, destroy it and fine you.

Buy a box!

[Sean Freeman]

Haha too many rods! There doesn't seem to be as big a market on this side of the pond for rod holders as there is in the USA. My uncle had a huge amount of beautiful spalted timber in his shed that he was saving to have made into something but in the damp conditions it just rotted away. Such a shame as I think one of the bigger pieces was maple. One of them was enough to make a solid table top from! I'll have a think about the pocket size fly box as it sounds appealing. A trout pattern on the lid would look cool.

[Inchlaggan]

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[Inchlaggan]

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[Inchlaggan]

Well, there are two projects now in hand.

A couple of fly boxes and a rod tube rack. Plenty of room for more.

I'll keep you all updated on progress in this thread.

The wood is on order from a company in Cornwall, it is planed all-round to exact sizes, but takes 3-4 weeks to do this and deliver.


Keep the ideas coming.


Ken

[Inchlaggan]

OK All, the wood has been prepared and is on the way. Should be here by the end of the week.

[superscot]

Looking forward to the finished article

[Sean Freeman]

Can't wait :

[superscot]

Have to say nothing better than a good wood made flybox, I had a few of the cheap plastic type ones but binned them all and went back to wood.