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The following posts will provide instructions that will show you how to build an inexpensive tip-up from common hardware store and found (i.e. recycled!) materials. Critical dimensions and special considerations are called out, as well as possible substitutions. Ive tried to keep the required tools to a minimum.You can use these construction plans to quickly build functional tips-ups (e.g. using low cost lumber with no finish, steel hardware, soup can lid reel) or splurge a bit and create a work of art (e.g. using an attractive hardwood like mahogany with a varnish finish, stainless steel hardware, a purchased reel). Ill leave the choice up to you, they will all catch fish!
Great great posts, but with such a specific list of parts needed for the tipup, I can't imagine that it would be much smarter making them instead of buying even the more expensive ones. I just try to use what's on hand. Last time I made one with such a design, I used a stick I found in the forest, some wire I found in the closet for both the flag and the main shaft wire, a little fishing line spool for the reel and some nuts and bolts that I found in the closet again.Didn't cost me anything but I sure did spend a while trying to make it all work. With your setup it wouldn't take long to assemble it, but I wonder the total cost of each tip up if you went somewhere like Home Depot to buy all the parts.. Have any idea?
You're right, I overlooked that aspect of making them yourself. But just out of curiousity, do you know how much it would cost to buy all those parts in home depot or a similar store?