rw contributes:
Good ideas, but why stop there. How about taking the next step -- bamboo
leader links.

hmmm, you may be on to something. They would probably only work with silk
lines, but still......Actually, my sense of anti-
elitist thinking would be likely to have me painting them to look like little
trompe l'oiel
Budweiser cans. Now, that would be tacky!
Tom