Homemade Spooling Station

[kingkong85]

My homemade spooling station. Replica of the Berkeley spooling station

[Shane J]

Nice!

[jly]

looks good!

[kingkong85]

Thanks guys

[whitwolf]

That's pretty cool!

[Bluebasser86]

Care to share the dimensions, and materials you used to make it? You can tell with most of it but not all. 

[tomustang]

Nice work, though tube/pipe straps will probably fit more snug at the ends.

[SudburyBasser]

Nice bit of work there.

[kingkong85]

Care to share the dimensions, and materials you used to make it? You can tell with most of it but not all.

- 2x4, use to hold the rod (Shakespeare casting blank) and metal pipe. I cut the 2x4 in half then cut to 2 1/8 inches in height to support the cork and 2 1/4 inches to support the blank. Then 3 inches for the pipe.

- Plywood for the platform. 20 inch length x 3/4 inch height x 6 inch width

- Right angle brackets to secure 2x4 blocks onto the platform.

Used Aersol black paint.

Tomustang, what are you talking about?

I'm not finish yet. Still need to secure the pipe that holds the spool and find a way to put tension on the spool.

Thanks. It was a fun project.

[AK-Jax86]

Very creative

[MDH713]

Very nice work. I always thought about trying something like that.

[kingkong85]

Thanks for the compliments fellas..

Was at the local hardware store and I found out what to use. I got the idea from looking at the P-Line spooling assistant. Another product I am copying. lol.. my local hardware store has springs, split collar, and rubber/cork stopper of different diameter. So buy 2 springs, 2 split collar, 2 rubber or cork stopper (your choice and must be tapered), and 4 washers. It is important that you get the hardware in the same diameter as your rod. Drill a hole through the stopper. Diameter will be the same as your rod and drill the hole in the center of the stopper. The order will be split collar washer spring washer stopper spool stopper washer spring washer and split collar.

Edit: I haven't bought the hardware yet. I just totaled the price for the hardware and it came out to 14 bucks before tax. Since the p line spooling assistant is the same price I'll might be buying the p line spooling assistant instead.

[tomustang]

Tomustang, what are you talking about?.

[bigbill]

For a home brew line spoiler it looks awesome to me.

[kingkong85]

Finished

[Ima Bass Ninja]

Looks good although you may have problems with line spooling to one side. Maybe it's just the size spool you have on there but it doesn't look like any spool would be centered to the reel.

[kingkong85]

I can adjust where the spool sit. Before I took these recent pictures I just spooled the reel you see in the picture. While spooling line onto the reel I use my other hand to guide the line in so there won't be any issues. It works great.