روش ساخت تور دستی برای ماهیگیری Landing nets
Landing nets with a difference
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le date 28 October 2007 par Mats Dahne
My name is Mats Dahne and I live slightly north of Sweden’s half way mark. I’m a fly fisherman and love fishing for grayling, sea trout and salmon in the beautiful rivers of northern Sweden.
For a living, I manage a small company working in three domains: first of all helping people with their TVs, satellite dishes etc., then sorting out computer problems and, the funniest part, making landing nets.
I leave the first two areas and will from here only write about my handicraft.
I started making net about six or seven years ago and I have made nearly 140 landing nets. It all started when a friend of mine wanted to show six people in our small fishing club how he makes landing nets. He had made some marvellous nets and I was very impressed. After he had shown how he made his nets, I thought it was so fun that I went home to my workshop and started making my own nets. Then after some nets, I saw some beautiful knifes that another friend had made. He use horn and tin in his knifes. So why not use both techniques! After a lot of thinking and trying, I started to make my own nets. I have spent a whole load of hours in the workshop thinking of different designs and techniques to make the net strong, practical and beautifully and that process never stops.
I have done handicraft and worked with wood for whole my life and I have used my experience in my nets. I have also an old wooden boat so I also know how you can seal the wood with the right kind of oil. The boat is 60 years old and still strong.
I like making light, robust landing nets that people use when fishing and I like it when each net is unique. It is ok if the nets hang off a wall in wintertime but when spring is coming, I hope my net is dangling from the back of a fly fisherman/woman. It’s very satisfying making things with your hands and it’s very satisfying that fisherman/woman round the world uses my nets. Now I will tell you how I like to make my landing nets.
Most of the time I use material from Sweden but I also use wood and horn from all over the world. Well, the bow is always made of Swedish wood, oak or ash tree. The wood from Sweden often holds a high quality because of the cold weather: it grows slow. My favourite piece of wood that I use for the handle is almost gone… it came from a cherry tree that grew in my garden. I have some new trees that are coming up ; so in 20-30 years I will have new material again...
So, to make a net I use oak ribs for the bow and different wood for the handle. Normally I use two layers of oak in the bow for my grayling/trout nets and three layers for my salmon nets. I always hand-pick the oak planks and normally it is one in 15 that has the right structure. The fibres in the oak must go through the whole length of the oak rib.
I also use elk horn and sometimes horn from reindeer which is an old material that people in the Nordic countries have used in knifes for a long time. Then I put some tin and birch bark between the horn pieces and finally put a brass knob in the end.
I have a couple of templates that I use.
To bend the oak ribs, I use a pipe that I have plugged in one end. Then I just put boiling water in the pipe and let the ribs lie there for about 15 minutes. Sometimes I reheat the water so that the ribs will be soft and will not crack when I bend them in the template.
I use about 20-28 clams to press the ribs against the handle and the template. Then it must dry out for at least 5 hours. The next step is to glue the ribs and the handle. So I remove all the clams, putting some glue between the pieces and put all the clams back together. Because I use PU glue (polyurethane) the pressure must be high.
After the glue has dried overnight, the time has come to grind the “net” for the first time. It’s a lot of grinding. Then I grind, again…, the end of the handle so it would fit perfectly to the horn pieces.
The next step is to cut out pieces from horn. It means a lot of searching to find the right pieces. Normally you can use maybe 5-10% of a horn. The rest have too much marrow or have the wrong shape. The best piece is the “rose wreath” which is the piece that is closest to the head. Then I grind all the pieces and measure them so they will fit perfectly without gaps. It is very important that the horn in the end of the handle don’t have any marrow. If there is some marrow, the horn will be dirty and it is impossible to make it smooth. Then I drill a hole in the centre of the horn pieces. That is for the screw that hold all the pieces tight to the wood handle.
I also cut out tin and birch bark pieces. I often use bark from birch but sometimes I also use spacers in different colours. It is a modern knife material and it’s made of some plastic material.
Once I have grinded all the horn, tin and bark pieces, I will glue them together with epoxy and tighten them up with a long wood screw. The screw is later on covered with the brass knob. I use an epoxy that hardens slowly. So until I can work with the net again I must wait for maybe fourteen to twenty hours depending on the ambient heat.
After that, there is a lot of grinding, grinding and grinding, and then a bit more grinding.
I make the brass knob from a brass bar. I proceed by putting the bar in a special kind of a drill and then shape the knob with a file. Once I have got the right shape, I polish the knob and drill a hole in it. Then I seal it with epoxy and a brass nail to the horn.
And then I grind, grind and fine grind…
Then, when I am satisfied with the finish I put the net in an oil bath for at least 24 hours. Most of the time I let the net take a bath longer than that. I use clarified linseed oil of highest quality and a dash of organic turpentine. After the oil bath I continue putting oil in the net for at least 36 hours but then I’ll use a brush.
When the wood is full with oil, the landing net must rest for some time. In most cases, I let the net rest for at least 5 days or more. Then I mark out where the hole must be drilled in the bow. My way to fasten the mesh in the bow is to drill small holes in the bow and then fasten the mesh with epoxy. Normally I drill 40 holes. I don’t drill the holes completely through the bow, its looks nicer if the outside is “clean” and without holes. Then I grind and grind and…
And then I grind and grind and then there is the last moment, and this is to polish the landing net. And hopefully, hopefully I have made a net that some fisherman or woman likes and will use to land beautiful fishes.
اگر در درست كردن دسته مشكل داريد مي توانيد از دسته اسكواش استفاده كنيد تورم كه زياده
If you want to make a net for yourself, I have written below a step-by-step guide. But remember, this is my way of making a net. Maybe you have a much better way
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