I keep up with Gary and his blog, The River’s Course. He has some interesting fishing adventures and ties extremely well. He has recently been working on some nice wooden fly displays. Here is his introduction and then head over to read and see all the details.
Some time ago, classic fly tyer Eunan Hendron asked me to make some display stands for him that would hold a clear plastic baseball card holder, which held the fly. Made a few and shipped them off. Recently had some time on my hands, some wood cut-offs from various project, and the ever-present need to try and make a few bucks. Thus, this post on making (and hopefully selling!) a fly display stand with case.
First, there was that pesky pile of various woods, chief among them some 200-year old Longleaf pine that came down courtesy Hurricane Hugo in South Carolina back in 1989. I found it in the rafters of an old sawmill, and used it for the floors of a house we were building outside of Edgefield, SC, when I was the director of development for the National Wild Turkey Federation. The sapwood is light and has a nice color; the heartwood is hard as a rock, full of pine resin and almost impossible to sand because of that resin. But it is beautiful. So I started with this: http://theriverscourse.blogspot.com/2013/10/making-simple-single-fly-display.html
Gary’s most recent post goes Inside a chunk of firewood…
