Tom, If you have a digital camera, send me a pic of that rod. It sounds beautiful. (close-up of the apricot wood). Keep it away from those big Weber white fish.
Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Davenport" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 6:47 PM Subject: [VFB] Rods a rollin' > > I've got my third rod built in the last three weeks rotating as I > write. So far i have had no epoxy problems (knock on wood). I am using > Dura-gloss this time, and I really like it. > > This third rod is a keeper. I had a friend turn the wooden spacer for > the reel seat out of a piece of Apricot wood from a tree growing the > back yard of my house, and put the reel seat on a Mahogany colored > Loomis GL3 blank. I used a tan-brown thread and added copper metallic > accents. The thread has darkened to almost the exact color of the > blank, creating the illusion that the wraps are clear and the guides > are held on by the strand of copper (I suspect the thread will be > visible in bright sunlight.) I used titanium single food guides (sorry > Tony). > > The first rod built was built from a blank I got on eBay sold as an > unidentified "Lamiglass second", but the butt diameter, color and > action match up perfectly with their IM-700 blank, which sells for > $175.00. Since I only paid $30.00, I got a heck of a deal. The blank > is dark green/ black, and I wrapped the guides with green thread and > blue metallic highlights . > > The second rod was built from an Elkhorn 6 wt blank that I got from an > friend whose flyshop went under. He sold it for next to nothing. I > chose a beautiful Black Walnut burl reelseat, and wrapped with dark > maroon thread with gold metallic highlights. > > > I'll probably sell the Lami-glass and Elkhorn on eBay recover my costs, > since I made them primarily for practice. With such great deals on the > blanks and it won't take much to get my money back. > > I have a Gatti blank on the way, and am going to re-do my Scott, and > that should wrap up my winter rod building (unless I find some more > great deals on blanks) > > Tom Davenport >
