just like starting over

and it sucks

but we're committed 

splitting tools

twelve strips

become twenty-four staggered

next up cut to rough size

and deal with the pesky nodes

and the gruntwork is underway...again

problem solving

in a lotta ways fly fishing, fly tying and rod building are exercises in problem solving

we've been struggling in the shoppe

finding 60s and a perfect equilateral triangles

a problem I haven't really encountered before

occasionally sure?  but this has been consistent

and frustrating

I noticed my irons were out of square

so I spent over an hour trying to true them back up

when I did and put an edge back on them they wouldn't fit back into the plane

FUCK!

fortunately I anticipated that and ordered two new irons last week

they arrived today

notice the discrepancy in size...

anyways, there's a lesson in this and it's written on my job board

as seen in the first pic

I have been rushing things to meet a non-existent deadline 

nearly working in an assembly line fashion

we're done w/ that shit

classic wets

several years back we auctioned these off for charity

certainly worth a looksee...

1960

purty tame, hunh?

things have  surely changed over the past fifty years

for comparison's purpose...

compare this photo w/ the p & o pictured below

much cleaner sharper image

preceding shot was taken w/ olympus stylus

this one w/ nikon coolshot

which I think takes much better pictures

but it won't sit still and cooperate w/ me anymore

damn thing

the stylus was purchased mostly for its waterproof feature 

and was intended mainly for documenting fishing excursions

circumstances require it to now be first string all around camera

and I'm none too happy w/ it

I really want a  nikon dslr...

simple

partridge and orange

because after all we are a "fly-fishing" blog

of sorts

one magical moment

a hundred years or so ago

(actually a mere thirty-two)

at the madhouse on mcdowell

was my life changed?  not really

but something happened

anyways, this is incredible
and that night I was there