I made this tiny tool for attaching yarn strike indicators to your leader with the help of a short section of silicone tubing - think ‘New Zealand Yarn Indicator’… It’s nothing more than a large darning needle with one side of the eye cut off, and stuck onto a shortish handle. You use the hook thus formed to draw the leader as a loop through the silicone tubing. Once the loop coming out of the end to the tube is large enough, you stick a piece of yarn into it, and draw the loop back into the tube, doubling the yarn into an indicator ‘ball’, and locking it into place. The fit is such that you can easily relocate the indicator as needed, or remove it altogether.
Some time ago I showed my hollowing jig for (female) bamboo ferrules. That version consisted of a small slab of wood with a groove, the depth of which defines the resultant wall thickness, and a spokeshave to remove material from the inside of a strip, down to the desired wall thickness. While functional, that small jig wasn't completely satisfactory, for a number of reasons. In addition, the (unmodified) spokeshaves were less than totally satisfactory, as they kept digging into the surface of the jig when reaching the final wall thickness. So I updated my hollowing jig, making it from a large, heavy slab of well seasoned European oak (from a 50 year old discarded table, sawn to length and planed to thickness (using a large workshop jointer and a lunchbox thickness planer). I made a number of grooves with a plunge router, of different depth (wall thickness) - on one side for general hollowing (wall thicknesses roughly between 2 and 3 mm), and for female ferrule hollowing on the ot...

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