Deep sea reel
After spending most of the summer painting the house and getting ready to sell and move, it was time to spend a little tie in the shop. Too cold to work outside today (wet too). So I worked on the fishing reel I started a couple months ago with a drawing. I had an antique reel that was laying about and waiting for a future so I decided it was time to make another lamp for down at the beach. The reel works (i.e. it turns the spool by cranking the handle). I started by firing up the Gear Generator program I used when I made the Frankenswitch a while back. Love that program. After sizing it so the final project wouldn't get to oversized, I laid it all out on graph paper. The original design called for a ring gear setup but after looking at what i needed to do to make the spool turn the right way, I went to a simple gear setup.. 2 horizontal gears.
Here's the layout for the gears. Simple inline 2-gear setup.
Here's the layers. This is the crank side. The other side is a mirror of E, *B, A and G. The extra B wasn't necessary.
Here's the final assembly. I used walnut, mahogany, BB and maple scraps.
The more I think about it, I might use this for one end of a set of bookends. The other end could have a couple oversized lures. Hmmmmmm
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After spending most of the summer painting the house and getting ready to sell and move, it was time to spend a little tie in the shop. Too cold to work outside today (wet too). So I worked on the fishing reel I started a couple months ago with a drawing. I had an antique reel that was laying about and waiting for a future so I decided it was time to make another lamp for down at the beach. The reel works (i.e. it turns the spool by cranking the handle). I started by firing up the Gear Generator program I used when I made the Frankenswitch a while back. Love that program. After sizing it so the final project wouldn't get to oversized, I laid it all out on graph paper. The original design called for a ring gear setup but after looking at what i needed to do to make the spool turn the right way, I went to a simple gear setup.. 2 horizontal gears.
Here's the layout for the gears. Simple inline 2-gear setup.
Here's the layers. This is the crank side. The other side is a mirror of E, *B, A and G. The extra B wasn't necessary.
Here's the final assembly. I used walnut, mahogany, BB and maple scraps.
The more I think about it, I might use this for one end of a set of bookends. The other end could have a couple oversized lures. Hmmmmmm
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