Building a Tackle Box

Baby powder, tape, paper clips, glue, pins, son, rubber bands, pencils, file, pliers, beeswax; the list of items found in a kit archer is as endless as the variety of items found in the sewing basket a housewife. Rarely beginner appreciate the need for a tackle box, and is rarely included in the items listed in fight against your original purchase. Broken Arrow nocks need to be replaced, the renewed service or tail stuck back loose. Sometimes show the newcomer the importance of the repair kit and parts in the tackle box. The average retail price of a fishing box is about twenty dollars. This figure is apparently a prohibitive price or the archer as naturally to build his own tackle box.

Many boxes to reflect the individual owner of the ideas in the provision and accessibility to face. Some of these boxes must have the other opening and a hinged lid. Arrow racks may be fixed or removable and containing one to four dozen arrows. Custom boxes that served as headquarters for the shooter, waiting his turn on the firing line. The gearbox shown in the diagram, Figure 43, is rectangular, with a total length of thirty inches, a width of ten inches, and a height of six and seven-eighths inches. A single partition separates the inside of the gear box into two compartments. The large compartment is six inches wide and provides space for the arrow rack that holds two dozen arrows. The rest compartment offers ample space for the earth shakes and belt, shooting gloves, separators, spare parts and repair kit.

The only tools needed to build this tackle box are a saw, a hammer, a carpenter's square, a drill or brace hand and a stick yard that you can borrow from family sewing room. The hand drill or belt is required for the construction of the rack arrow. Two bits are required, one bit must be a 11/32 inch diameter, for perforating the required number of bolt holes, and the other bit should have a diameter of 5/16 inch for piercing the series of the necessary holes for arrows. If using wooden arrows, check the diameter to ensure that the data size is large enough to allow entry of the arrow. A bottle of glue furniture, one pound box of a quarter inch of seventeen wire spikes, a variety of dimes small nails and nails that can be purchased at the dime store, and a number of a flint paper sheet in the list of complete materials. If you choose to use wood screws instead of nails to assemble over the box you will need, in addition to other tools of a screwdriver and a small piece to make pilot holes for the screws to avoid cracking. Wood screws are preferred because they have better qualities than the retaining wire nails, although more work is needed to assemble the box.

If you choose to use plywood, ignore the list of materials accompanying the plane of the figure 43 and use material from three eighths of an inch to the side and a material from a quarter inch up and down. If the smoothing plant does not three-eighths inch stocks finished a total of ten inches wide, ask them to share an inch by twelve inch plate, seven feet six inches long, in half of your band saw; then dress each half only three-eighths of an inch thick ten inches wide. The finished wood should cost about $ 4.00. Check your measurements and work frequently to avoid mistakes. The background corresponds to the inside of the sides, while the upper housing part covers the sides of the lid.

Start the job of cutting the sides of thirty inches measuring box by four and a quarter inches. The total width of the case is ten inches. The interior length of the case measured twenty-nine and a quarter inches. It controls the height dimension of the jib frame which is designed such that its total length up to twenty-nine inches. To build the rack arrow, cut three rectangular pieces with the dimensions shown in detail A and B, and round the corners inch radius of a quarter. Attach two pieces together temporarily and bore all the holes through both pieces. This last part is designated as C in the drawing rack-mounted boom.

Rack mounting arrow by inserting four bolts to 5/16 of an inch in diameter through the holes of the corner fittings A and B. Apply glue to the lower ends of the dowels and insert them in decision stuck in C. Place the arrow holder in your database and C check the vertical and horizontal alignment by inserting an arrow in various positions in the rack. The necessary equipment costs about a dollar and fifty to five hundred and consists of a pair of one inch by three-inch hinges, two jacks, a handful of three inches, and the necessary complement of screws with heads button. Metal edges can be added to this list of equipment if desired.

Mix two parts of turpentine and boiled part of linseed oil to about three-quarters cup of the mixture. A third lubrication may be applied if it is found that wood absorbs more oil. Set the tackle box in four small blocks of wood so that air can circulate freely on all surfaces and leave the box will remain until it feels completely dry when rubbed lightly with the palm.

The tackle box is ready for hair removal. Use a little wax polishing liquid, the family keeps on hand to polish the furniture or dig your Simoniz can you use to polish the car and give it a good coat Tackle Box.

The total cost of your new box equipment, exclusive of work, will close six dollars and fifty cents. Sooner or later you will realize that a tackle box is a must.