{"id":224,"date":"2012-01-21T17:18:41","date_gmt":"2012-01-21T17:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/?p=224"},"modified":"2012-01-21T17:18:41","modified_gmt":"2012-01-21T17:18:41","slug":"making-wood-reel-seats-for-bamboo-fly-rods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/?p=224","title":{"rendered":"Making wood reel seats for bamboo fly rods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I make all my own reel seat inserts for my bamboo fly rods.  You don&#8217;t need an expensive lathe, I just use an old craftsman lathe.  But, if you&#8217;re going to put a mortise on your reel seat, I&#8217;ve found that you need a good router table.  The precision of the mortise cut is very important or you&#8217;ll ruin the insert.  I make my cut on a Rockler Router Table with a convex edging bit, sometimes called a finger nail bit (http:\/\/www.rockler.com\/product.cfm?page=5713).  After final sanding, I put two coats of shellac, followed by 8 coats of a high quality tung oil finish, and then a couple of coats of wax.  Here a little video of my building process..I hope you enjoy it:  <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I39BzLsNjWk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I make all my own reel seat inserts for my bamboo fly rods. You don&#8217;t need an expensive lathe, I just use an old craftsman lathe. But, if you&#8217;re going to put a mortise on your reel seat, I&#8217;ve found &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/?p=224\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22],"tags":[3,27,4,34,38,39,40,41],"class_list":["post-224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rod-building","tag-bamboo-fly-rods","tag-buildling-bamboo-rods","tag-dave-dozer","tag-making-bamboo-fly-rods","tag-making-reel-seats","tag-reel-seat-inserts","tag-rockler","tag-router-bits"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1JKLr-3C","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227,"href":"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions\/227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}