How Do You Make Rabbit Nets Using A Wooden Frame

[pigeonphill 69]

 

 

best way mate and im being seurous dont listen to drivle on here, go to someone that makes nets like mick dadd or if you were up here in scotland teach you in an hour or two ,

 

i would say a day helping a ,man and learning how to do its a day worth well spending , forget about all the nails and boards do it properly ,

 

learn with needle and spacer then when you get handy you can gauge the mesh and tallyho do it free hand like fishermen do on boats harbours for a living ,

 

 

he asked and some of us tried to explain how to do it . and yes using needle and mesh gauge is the way to do it nowadays but to say you, then can then do it with out the mesh gauge is DRIVLE to me how or why would you want to do it with out one unless you are repairing a net with a hole in it

This lad does ok without a board

MICK DADD .. NET MAKER:

 

fair point but how many other people do you know what make a net not using a gauge

[The one 8,594]

There was a Pakistani lad at the Midlands won the net making comp two years on the trot ? Never used a net board either

[fluff 410]

youse are feching crazy at times net boards , net gauges ,nails , free hand is a lot quicker and once you use the same twine, you get good with it ,what i would say to guys is use a gage for every end mesh to get your size incase your creeping with your sizes , learnt to make nets 34 years ago as kids never had a net gage until maybe twenty years ago , we bought a cheap 4z shitty net copied the mesh size then made it to our requirments

 

lay you nets and gear we are sailing to waters dangerous and impailing ,come sweat or cold getting old , o the bonny shoals of herring

 

there must be some originals on here who were harbour kids helping the fishermen mend there gear salmon nets etc in days gone by , learning to splice , mend tore trawl nets , learnt of old poachers ,etc ,or is it all net books vidoes , we first started with irish linnen and 8z irish cotton ,

then staple net nylon hairy like hemp but rot proof ,never saw woodenboard net gauge until ninties

[Moe 108]

Made my first nets the nail method way in 1989, was shown by a couple of old rabbiters from cumbria.quite easy and quick when you get the hang of it, happy days.

[jocky 198]

thanks moe, but can you remember how to make the frames , as i cant.

[fluff 410]

moe dont think its quick useing nail method ,ive only saw it once and was not near as efficient as free hand proper net making better stitching it on a ring or toggle and working away from it youle soon get the hang of it ,

[francolin 449]

Your a glutton for punishment mate. Twenty , thirty minutes will see you rattle off a net using ring and spacer board with a needle why make it hard work for yourself ?

that's good going ,you must be a regular net make,it takes me 20 to fill the needle lol, saying that I aint made 20 nets in last 20 year,but when younger made thousands, with needle and gauge,can any you net makers remember the brass curtain rings, bent easy when used for nets we pinched em from all over as kids, wrong I know but shit happens

[The one 8,594]

 

Your a glutton for punishment mate. Twenty , thirty minutes will see you rattle off a net using ring and spacer board with a needle why make it hard work for yourself ?

 

that's good going ,you must be a regular net make,it takes me 20 to fill the needle lol, saying that I aint made 20 nets in last 20 year,but when younger made thousands, with needle and gauge,can any you net makers remember the brass curtain rings, bent easy when used for nets we pinched em from all over as kids, wrong I know but shit happens

I start off maybe fifty nets to eight rows with six inch needles them ive maybe twenty needles loaded up and I sit and knit away to my hearts content in my man cave lol it's great with a stero or the telly on tried to knit some nets let week but it was to cold even with the heater on I can knit loads all summer and sell every net I make

[fluff 410]

i had ago at selling ,nets years ago, but was to busy early ninties , good winter hobby , in between hunting coursing ,

 

lay your nets and gear we are sailing through wind and weather its ailing ,come winter summer wet and cold getting old o the bony shoal o herring , the old herring men could make nets from wick to yarmouth on the dsiling luggers ,

 

i done my apprentiship on the salmon drift nets mending soon taut you how to do nets

[francolin 449]

do any youngsters make there own these days,i know there cheap enough to buy,but it was great to catch in your own made nets, and its good to have more than you need,going to find the needles out and do one or two for old times sake,will get a pic on when I get going showing the superior quality of my net making

[francolin 449]

that didn't take long

[francolin 449]

that didn't take long

will be back later with a better pic and a finished net hopefully

[francolin 449]

finished first in about 30 year,took a while bit rusty

[francolin 449]

I have just started my papa showed me bits now ave made 15 3 ft nets they work fine.a would rather learn how to do my own and it gives me something to do in the summer when thing are quiet atb kieran

nice one Kieran, my 3 sons all can make em, but don't bother ,I wonderd if any younger chaps still did there own,glad to hear you do atb