Sister Seat

After deciding that I would make two of these rods my mind turned to what the seat for the sister rod would be. I found a nice insert that I had turned down a couple of years ago and hadn't yet made a rod for it. This seemed like an excellent opportunity to use a pretty (and gnarly) piece of wood. In a similar "that works out well" fashion to the bamboo selection, as it turns out the blank I turned this filler from came from the very same rodmaker's gathering.

From TK Rod Project

I like the poetics of that enough to work around the fact that making the up-slide/hidden-pocket out of an already turned round filler could prove problematic. But I have some ideas for that, and think that it will add a touch of uniqueness in the end.