Hi all,
has anyone here ever made there own reel?
I would love to make one at home on my cnc machine but no idea where to start, maybe recreate one of the old style wooden reels for fun?
If anyone had any diagrams or designs they could pont me to that would be great failing that just a simple idea for how one would look would be good.
Need to put the cnc machine to some good use.

There was a great series of posts re making a reel from scratch on Speypages .
Another person to talk to is Watermole on Hoppys seatrout forum ,I beleive he is machining a reel this winter .

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Have a look at this...

Tom's reel - The design and making of homemade fly fishing reels. A wonderful hobby beside fly fishing itself. - Global FlyFisher

Cheers

Andy

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another couple of useful links:

Reel Plans | North Branch Reels

The Reelsmithing Forum • Index page

Pete

I made 2 reels last winter from a plan on the Eclectic angler site from Scrap alu
Making them was no problem but refining them took time I dont have a CNC M/C just a woodturning lathe and a tiny centre lathe, it kept me out of mischief
easker1

Chirpyaphid on here was looking into building his own reels,try sending him a pm

Neil

Thanks for all the pointers i am looking forward to looking and delving more into this i am luck enough tto own a small cnc machine and have had great results so far, currently making clocks and loving it, i also made a few fly boxes, take a look at some here

or my other post on my fly boxes open to ideas on these also...

Thanks again for all the links my head is now swimming.
I am going to purchase a kit from electic angler but then re machine some new spool face designs maybe incorporating a 3d carved trout as i use on my fly boxes on the opposite side to the handle and some fancy engraving to the handle side.
As soon as i get started i will post some pics.

Kit purchased so i am looking forward to remachining some side paltes etc when it arrives, also looking at mayybe doing one in carbon fibre?
Old school reel but supre light and snazzy..

Ok an update.
Finallly got round to messing with the kit i purchased from electic angler site.

I have remachined the plates with a pattern just to see how it looks and it is in thicker brass than the kit, i would like to do in thinner brass, but at least i know it all works at the moment.
I am also looking to engrave the reel foot after i shape it.
Hopefully MK 2 over the weekend.






Any comments would be appreciated.