Rod lathe chuck and fishing rod build: Part 1
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- Опубліковано 2 лис 2024
- I have been building fishing rods for about 6 years now with my own home made equipment. I’m still learning but I figured someone might appreciate the use of 3D printing to build the tools for the hobby. I printed a well-known design by bobwomble on Thingiverse (www.thingivers...) and then changed the back plate for my application. I used TinkerCAD to adjust the back plate to accept a 1/2-13 thread pattern and printed off the design on my Anet A8. Every piece of the chuck was printed in PLA except for the jaws which I printed in PETG. I had tried to print a whole version in PETG but experienced a print failure half way through the print of the main body so I stuck with PLA for most parts. It is important to note that I also had a very hard time to get the PETG prints to break in which also made for an easy decision to print in PLA.
Rod building is supposed to be nice and relaxing and it definitely is when you are used to doing it. Starting this up again after about a year off was a bit stressful. I get most of my rod building supplies off of mudhole.com (not sponsored) they seem to have all the parts you need whenever you need them. The Rod featured in this build series is a 9’6” 8 wt flyrod that will eventually be used for spider rigging crappies. I used pro-wrap thread for the pearl, green and gold. I believe the green was a color preserver ready thread, but I have not noticed much of a color change if the thread is normal and you add color preserver.
The rod lathe is an old sewing machine motor and an add-on dimmer switch to control speed. Although the motor is controlled with a foot petal it doesn’t seem to allow the motor to slow down quite enough for effective thread wrapping. “Helping” the motor slow with the add-on switch seems to achieve the right speed. I have this setup on a harbor freight wood working bench with bench dogs. I followed DavidGewirtzTV and 3D printed his bench dog covers to cover up the holes when not in use video here ( • Hacking Harbor Freight... ). I also used a set of the bench dogs to consistently align the rod lathe to the workbench every time I use it which I think will come in handy.
I will hopefully work on this rod in a continuing series here on UA-cam so please consider subscribing if you are interested in seeing the final product. At this rate it should be ready Q4 of 2029, but I promise I’ll post other interesting things in between.
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I am I need of that Chuck.
Fantastic machine! Can you post how you wired the sewing machine motor for reverse direction and include the wiring diagram? Thanks!
Mannnnnnnnn!!! This was amazing... Any true fisherman will love this... Great job.
Thanks! I'll get that rod done at some point lol
This is awesome. Thanks for the motivation to warm up the printer and get building
Thanks for watching glad I could help! I think you just motivated me to pick this project back up again, I really should finish building that rod lol.
did you ever do anything else with this project? looking at making my own to wrap a few rods.
I kept it the same for now it works pretty well, I haven't had time to wrap any of my projects though, so I haven't made any of the improvements it needs. I would still like to do a 3d printed roller guide design, I think with just some 608 bearings and some flex filament and a channel type design for the base would be awesome. But like with everything, work and life gets in the way lol.
This looks impressive! Simply cannot sit tight to view the same as this. Great job.
Thanks! I think the next major project will be to design an whole one of these but 3D printed instead out of wood.