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Full size drawing and sketched approach.
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Wet forming the sides on a pine mold. Form holding frame shown.
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Trimming the sides. Formed leather sitting on mold. This works well.
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The 3 main parts.
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Second side tricky to hand sew with removable pins to align parts.
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Front side view of fly cast reel case.
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Bottom view.
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Neatsfoot oil finish on natural veg. tan leather.
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Rear view with 2 brass D rings.
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Lambs wool interior to cushion reel. Strap to keep sides aligned.
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Drying fixture to hold wet formed leather shape.
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Using a $ store vacuum bag and small vacuum to wet form the sides.
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Ver. 2. Using double sided tape to hold the sides for sewing.
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Making my life easy! Sewing the sides on, inside out.
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Ver. 2, sewn with my Singer 29K cobbler machine.
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Fly cast reel case #2
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Lamb skin padding on both sides
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Another view.
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Cases for high-end reels?
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Turning a leather wet forming mold using math.
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0.5” radius sphere for wet forming.
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Different attempts at forming a closed cylinder in leather.
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Wet forming the reel winder side.
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Using the handy template I designed/fab’d to create stitch hole pattern.
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So far so good!
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Squeezing the mold halves and wet leather together in a vice.
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Resulting wet moulded part! Let it dry.
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Punching the hole for the leather clearance cap.
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‘D’ rings and water resistant wrap around zipper.
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Top view of spey casting reel leather carrier.
