Joe Emig

Scale pattern reel seat, no finish.

8 color Indian Blanket pattern with holly, maple, cherry, pink ivory, cedar, mahogany, walnut, and ebony, tru-oil finish.

8 color Indian Blanket pattern with holly, maple, cherry, pink ivory, cedar, mahogany, walnut, and ebony, tru-oil finish.

Cherry with malachite web inlays, tru-oil finish.

Web weaver technique used minus the vertical line inlays to create feeling of choppy waters, cherry with tru-oil finish

Web weaver technique used with walnut and mahogany, tru-oil finish.

Web weaver technique used with cherry and maple, reminded me of choppy seas with the contrasting colors used, need to leave out the vertical line inlays to get a better effect.

Reel seat made with scrap from single scroll handle, cherry and maple with tru-oil finish.

Close up of single scroll handle rear grip, web weaver technique used, cherry and maple with tru-oil finish.

Close up of single scroll handle fore grip,web weaver technique used, cherry and maple with tru-oil finish.

Handle design made using web weaver technique, reel seat cross cut at 45 degrees to match grain in front and rear grips, I like cherry and maple together, tru-oil finish.

Tried to simulate limestone block pattern,curly maple with tru-oil finish, too busy, could change a few things and make it a little tamer, not worth it, scrap pile.

Brick reel seat with decorative limestone inlayed in running bond pattern, curly maple with tru-oil finish.

Brick reel seat using a Flemish Bond pattern with 8 bricks per course and a soldiers course header with 12 bricks per course, inspired by the brick wall behind home plate at Wrigley Field, curly maple with a tru-oil finish, Go Cubs.

Brick reel seat using Flemish bond pattern, alternating headers and stretchers, 8 bricks per course, curly maple with a tru-oil finish.