Anyone ever make a fly fishing rod case?

[Wipedout]

My son wants to make a case for his fly fishing rod. I've seen some that are octagons like these

   

But he likes something like this

   

Thoughts?

[Arlin Eastman]

It looks like simple stave construction or I should say not simple but cut at the angles and glued together and then the outside turned I am thinking.

A long time ago my Grandpa helped me make one for the bamboo 10 and 6 weight fly rods but it was a flat case.  I still have one the rods and the very old reel.  My Grandpa gave my younger brother the 6 weight and he had it a month before he broke it in so many pieces.
   I know the fly rod is at least made 1910 or so.

[Angus]

That would take some very deep hollowing if it had to be round all the way to the bottom. I guess it wouldn't have to be though. Stave construction is fairly easy. Just need a long enough shooting/sanding board to true the two halves to remove any cutting errors. Use hose clamps for the clamping.

[Wipedout]

Thanks guys. How do you determine the angles on stave construction?

[Arlin Eastman]

It is the same as making segments and how many staves you want to make.  4, 6, 8, 12?  They each have their own degrees.

I am pretty sure a 6 stave is 30*, 8 stave is 22.5*, 10 stave is 18*, and 12 is 15*.

https://uniontownlabs.org/tools/stave/

[Souperchicken]

Cool calculator link, Arlin.

[daddo]

Wouldn't a pvc pipe be easier?


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[Arlin Eastman]

Cool calculator link, Arlin.

I do not understand most of it but it looks like it has everything.

[Wipedout]

Wouldn't a pvc pipe be easier?


..... I said a bad word didn't I ?  


 

of course it would - but then so would much of anything we do with woodworking