Lamiglas for Jeremy

The latest fiberglass casting rod I built is for Jeremy aka JC Mountain. He is not a "casting" type of guy but I hope with this fiberglass casting will change his view especially on the fiberglass rod.

As I was building the rod , I took photos of the rod and posted it on FB so that he knows the progress of his rod.

Here are the photos of the rod.

The 7' blank was shorten by 3" for easy storage ( in his monster truck ) and easy manouvering on the canoe.
Started off the reel seat. Fuji ACS.

Shaping of cork grips and fighting butt. I always believed that "Honey Yellow" Lamiglas blank goes well with cork grips.

Fitting up the cork grip and fighting butt.

He wanted to put his signature on the rod. After 30 minutes of discussion, finally we found a place for his signature..... on the butt. I meant on the butt of the rod, just above the cork fighting butt.

Next would be the selection of thread colors. He picked burgundy red with gold thread spiral.

Before the actual thing, I did a sample wrap to the 3" cut off piece, with CP and without CP.

Top one with CP and the bottom one without CP.

After epoxy, the one with CP looks slightly brighter and this is the one he wanted.



I started with the hook keeper and he was kinda skeptical about the combination at first. Some friends commented that it look like sari. I had to take another photo a few feet away to convince him that it looks okay..

Can carry on with the rest...

When he saw the photos of my other builtd, he liked the feather inlay I did on the Lamiglas fly rod.

Looks classic... he says. Sure, I did that for him..  a double sided one. We called it " The Yin and the Yang".

The feather....then the eye..

and... the other side..

Lamiglas logo placed in between the Yin and Yang

Then the finish epoxy. It took a couple layers of epoxy to cover the feather inlay.

After a few weeks ........

Done... I am happy with this built , I hope he is too....

LAMIGLAS fiberglass casting rod for a friend..

I have promised my friend to build for him 4 casting rods and all 4 have to be completed by July..
I have to start now or else, I will not be able to get it done on time..
He wants 2 fiberglass and 2 graphite casting rods..and I will be starting off with the fiberglass first.

 He gave me a brief specification of the rod he wanted... light, good fish handling power but soft or so called moderate slow, easy to handle and the rest is up to me..

The fiberglass rods will be from Lamiglas, Skeet Reese bass rod blanks series. I will be reconfiguring a 1 piece 7 footer at 8~20lb to a 6'6" 10~18lb... in simpler terms, cutting it short.

Marked the spine and then cutting it short...

Experimenting with spiral guide

I have done some reading on building casting rod and the deflection of each rods are different based on the stiffness of the blanks. Since the fiberglass blank is on the soft side, it would be safer to fix spiral guides on it so that the line would not touch the blank when bending.

I placed the guide on the inner side of the spine as if I am doing the spinning rod and slowly adjusting the lower guide to the other side of the blank, so that the line from the reel will gradually turn following the guides.

I wrapped the guide foot with masking tapes and securing it with some cotton thread before the rod was subjected to a static loading test.

It worked as what was stated in the internet. Great bending action without line touching the blank.

Next, I have to remove all the cotton thread and do some readjustment to the guides before wrapping it........

Pilot project - LAMIGLAS - Skeet Reese series

While waiting for the reel seat for my #6 bamboo rod, I decide to kick off my pilot project - fiberglass casting rod.  I purchased this blank from Mudhole.. yup the biggest fishing rod components supplier in the State.
This 7' long fiberglass rod blank has a line weight of 8~20lb and got a 'BIG' butt.. 0.775" in diameter, that is almost 19.7mm. I ordered all the components for this rod as well.

I shorten this blank slightly. Took away 3" to make the butt slightly smaller.
I have just fitted the cork grips and the reel seat on the blank. Yet to glue it up. Still got so much more to do..