Category Archives: Foot

Bronze Castings

Posted on February 5, 2022 by dave49

Here is a bronze casting in the form of a rectangular solid bar, and a reel foot made from this material. Bronze alloy C954 is supplied as a casting, made by the “continuous casting” method. The cast bar is quite … Continue reading →

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Leo’s Foot Fixtures

Posted on November 11, 2017 by dave49

Below is some correspondence from Leo. When I have needed to make curved surfaces on reel feet, I have used my mill with either a rotary table fixture or a ball end mill. Leo shows how to do the same … Continue reading →

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Fitting Reel Foot to Seat II

Posted on July 11, 2017 by dave49

This post is additional material to my post of 15 June 2015. In that post, I did not say enough about the interface of the reel foot and the reel seat sliding ring. Here again I am discussing “cap and … Continue reading →

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Bronze Frame Reel – Foot

Posted on February 2, 2017 by dave49

The foot is made mainly by milling operations. The challenge is sequencing these operations so that the part can be clamped. Only recently did I figure out how to cut the top surface with my lathe. Earlier posts on the … Continue reading →

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A Foot Fixture for the Lathe

Posted on July 24, 2016 by dave49

Since starting this hobby in 2010, I have built about 50 reels. For every one of these, I shaped the top of the reel foot with a vertical mill using this rotary table fixture. This is a labor intensive process … Continue reading →

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Fitting Reel Foot to Seat

Posted on June 26, 2015 by dave49

This is my presentation for Grayrock 2015, on the fit of a reel foot to a reel seat. For an earlier post on this same topic, see 28 July 2014. This presentation considers “cap and ring” seats like this, although … Continue reading →

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Sole of the Foot Revisited

Posted on June 11, 2015 by dave49

In Sept 2011 I made a post on shaping the groove in the bottom of a reel foot. Part of the problem was that the groove radius needed to be about 0.35 inch, and the largest ball end mill that … Continue reading →

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Top of the Foot

Posted on July 28, 2014 by dave49

I delivered the Bronze Frame Reel (blog post of July 14) to a rodmaker acquaintance, who was making himself a new 3 weight rod just for this reel. He had chosen a CRNS reel seat from REC Components, but found … Continue reading →

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Reel 37 Foot

Posted on March 18, 2014 by dave49

The foot is entirely made on the mill, except that I use the lathe to turn a sanding mandrel for the bottom surface. For the many posts on machining the foot, go over to “Categories” at the right edge of … Continue reading →

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New Foot Fixtures

Posted on September 16, 2013 by dave49

My new reel design has a one piece frame, so the foot has to attach in a different way. Previously, the foot had a tooling hole that allowed simple clamping on two special fixtures. Without the tooling hole, clamping is … Continue reading →

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