Do you make stick floats?

[dapper64]

Where do you get paint from?

[Worms]

Thats why its so good for stick float stems.Makes a nice "balanced" float.Not quite self cocking but it certainly helps them sit nice in pacey water.

 

Used to be able to get them pre formed as well.

Right, I see what you mean now, a lignum vitae stick with a body on. I just see stick floats as 'sticks'. Then again I'm not really a float connoisseur

[Rusty]

I was going to paint some 15mm American Civil War figures for a forthcoming miniature war game.

 

Are you confident of victory or will you be painting bullet holes in them?

[watatoad]

Are you confident of victory or will you be painting bullet holes in them?

 

Hehehe...even arms and other bits blown off...hehehe

[George387]

Hehehe...even arms and other bits blown off...hehehe

 

Just seen the thread after awakening from a gruelling 21 hours of emergency engineer...

 

Like gary I cut a spigot into the cane before inserting into the balsa & then turning the whole thing,

This is an older photograph and will be updated soon with new ones which I am currently working on for a friend in South Yorkshire, thay are remakes of the Billy lane Sticks.

[Guest bbamboo]

Just seen the thread after awakening from a gruelling 21 hours of emergency engineer...

 

Like gary I cut a spigot into the cane before inserting into the balsa & then turning the whole thing,

This is an older photograph and will be updated soon with new ones which I am currently working on for a friend in South Yorkshire, thay are remakes of the Billy lane Sticks.

 

Hi George what the materials used in the sticks?

 

The billy lane stick floats Originals were they just balsa and cane,or lignum.

I need to get some more of Billys classic books

Edited January 24, 2010 by bbamboo

[George387]

Hi George what the materials used in the sticks?

 

The billy lane stick floats Originals were they just balsa and cane,or lignum.

I need to get some more of Billys classic books

 

Gary they are cane & Balsa & Billy's were also dense cane and balsa and he also made balsa & piano wire ones also.

 

Where we have half & half for strength billy built his more of cane and only the upper sections were balsa for sensitivity.

[Guest bbamboo]

Gary they are cane & Balsa & Billy's were also dense cane and balsa and he also made balsa & piano wire ones also.

 

Where we have half & half for strength billy built his more of cane and only the upper sections were balsa for sensitivity.

 

 

Cheers

From what I picked up in Billy’s encyclopaedia of float fishing I don’t think he was to keen on traditional stick floats.

But details wire stems more favourably.

 

I made mine stick floats 1/3 balsa and 2/3 cane.

 

Gary

[dapper64]

Where do you get paint from?

somebody out there must know where to get the paint,what type of paint is it?

[George387]

somebody out there must know where to get the paint,what type of paint is it?

Dapper if you look back the forum you will find everything about paints, try this link below

 

http://www.anglersnet.co.uk/forums/humbrol...t-t2236319.html