New Fiberglass Fly Rod Blanks

After testing a few prototypes of this newly tapered fiberglass, finally a new blank color was chosen.

This 6'6" 3 piece 3wt fiberglass blank is slightly faster than those conventional fiberglass blanks that I have used previously, thus this will provide a better controllability to the caster.

Translucent brown giving this blank a vintage "feel"

Test fitting the cork grip and up locking reel seat for up coming project.

Fast action glass fly rod with LIME GREEN wraps

This is another fast action 3 section 6'-6" 3wt fiberglass blank.

The blank is not painted but dipped with spar urethane as what they do with bamboo blanks. The translucent white fiberglass blank turned slightly yellowish due to the spar coating.

Installed with a half wells cork grip and up locking reel seat. Snake guides placement marked on the blank.

Used lime green nylon thread for wrapping. I have seen others wrapping with this colour and it look very nice but never tried it. So, this is it...

Wrapping done and time for epoxy to do its' magic.

After coated the thread with epoxy, it turned slightly translucent like all nylon threads does. At a certain angle , you can see right through the guide foot.
Luckily  I had all the guide foot prep before wrapping it.

And it is all done.. the first LIME GREEN wraps!