A new production furler

EclecticGuy February 08, 2010 fly fishing, furling engine, line making, metal working 4 Comments

A new customer commissioned me to make this special furler for him. He makes furled leaders for sale on his Streamside Leader web store. He wanted a 3 strand furler with a central hook to do a power reverse twist! We worked together for a few weeks to come up with this basic design.

The engine is solid brass with 3 hooks orbiting a 4th central hook that rotates the opposite direction. The cradle holds a powered handpiece that chucks the furler shaft. The handpiece is held down with velcro looped around the brass cross bars as shown in the last photo. Quite the device! I am going to build myself one like this for the furled silk fly lines I am protoyping.

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4 Responses to “A new production furler”

  1. walldog said:

    Feb 15, 10 at 1:27 pm

    OMG I want one, no I NEED one, seriously!

  2. EclecticGuy said:

    Feb 15, 10 at 1:36 pm

    That can be arranged! Email me at mhackney@eclecticangler.com

    cheers,
    EG aka EA

  3. Richard Setina said:

    May 10, 10 at 4:11 am

    Nice new furling machine Michael. I still use my hand held Walton’s Engine every so often when I want to make a new leader. You make some very impressive machines.

  4. EclecticGuy said:

    May 20, 10 at 2:35 am

    Thanks Richard! Glad to hear your Walton’s Engine is serving you well.

    Cheers,
    EG

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