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I’m posting a few photos from my latest rod work. I’ve been working on a 9′ 6wt fly rod for my sister-in-law, Gina. She needed a stronger rod for heading out West this year. The rod features a Struble nickel silver reel seat with burl madrone insert, nickel silver winding check, red-banded agate stripping [...] The nearly-completed handle on my Lamiglas Spring Creek fiberglass fly rod. I currently have five fly rods in various stages of birth scattered across my rod working area. Most of these are to be gifts. One is for me, a 7’6″ 4wt Lamiglas fiberglass fly rod. It was about a year ago when [...] I’m fresh from signing up for my three blocks of green power, thanks in no small part to our discussion from the last post. I’ll be short an extra $12/month, but according to the TVA site, I will have taken action equivalent to planting 1.5 acres of trees. I found one site which calls [...] Ah the weekend. My favorite time of week! This last week has been interesting on several fronts. First of all, we finished our first hand-built rod! Insane and I spent several days this last week working to put the thing together and working around the inevitable difficulties. I can say I’m honestly surprised at the results. I would never have thought our first rod would look this good. The only thing wrong with it is one small section of finish which was damaged when I rushed it. You see, I was in a hurry to take it and show it off, so I didn’t wait long enough for the finish to set up. So I now have a Suzuki seat cushion partially imprinted on the St. Croix label. Not bad at all for a first try. The next few photos document the process in abbreviated fashion. Continue reading First Rod Finished and Other Notes |
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