PO ~St Croix SCIII Ultralight~

Simple old school design with aluminum trigger wood insert reel seat and cork grip handle.

First the planning of the handle. The blank was shorten 3" from the original length of 7'.

After lathing the cork handle and fore grip.

The cork handle in position.

Test fitting and fixing the whole handle.

Reprinted the rod decal as the original sticker was missing.
Made slight changes on the decal.

Water transfer decal as per requested.

The guides going half way....

Electroplated frame Fuji SiC guides wrapped and epoxied...

Top guide size #4

The completed rod..

New Fly ROD project

This is an entirely new taper for this tobacco fiberglass blank which I would consider it as a fast action fiberglass rod. Of course, you can't compare this "fast" with a graphite fly rod.

A 3 section 6'6" at 3wt. This blank got a translucent brown colour finishing.

Test fitting the cork grip and reel seat.

Wrapping with mid brown nylon thread.

Decal..

Completed ...

MATAGI Fiberglass XUL Spinning

This 6' fiberglass XUL blank is rated at 2-4lb. Why XUL you may asked....
It is XUL because it's glass and it's soft...but apart from all that, this little rod is really fun to cast with a UL spinning setup.

I used Andrew's fishing flat face spinning reel seat FP type for this project of mine. Unfortunately they have ran out of the burled wood type, if not the handle will look even nicer.

A few shot on the handle.

Fuji SiC K guides with metallic white wrapping and silver trim.

Fuji KR Concept guides layout

Did a rush job on this rod for this...... 

 

If you have noticed, there is no rod decal on the rod in the 'fish' photos.
As this was a really rush job, I just finished what just need to be done and finished it off after the fishing trip... LOL

And.. NO, you are eye sights are perfectly well... there are 2 Matagi XUL rods in the photo. Pretty much the same stuff but they are not alike...

The WanXcamo Rod

Another simple built for this light power CRB Xcamo blank.


It goes very well with this camo reel seat from American Tackle.

Handle setup with cork foregrip and split handle.

Spiral guide placement with white Pearsall Gosammer's silk thread for transparent wrapping effect which I simply called it as the "super glued" wrapping.

After epoxy.

A close up shot on the guides. The silk thread will be transparent after come into contact with the epoxy and it looks as if the guides foot are glued and coated with epoxy. That is why I called it "super glued" wrapping.

 I am using Thread Master epoxy and so far it has not disappointed me.

Rod decal taken before coating with epoxy.

The other side of the rod decal.

A coating of U40 Cork Seal for the finishing touch.

Lamiglas EXCEL 12-25lb

This is another LAMIGLAS EXCEL that I have completed yesterday. This might resembled the 1st Lamiglas EXCEL that was built in January this year at a glance, but if you look closely it is very different.

The blank is 6'6" in length and rated at 12-25lb. This blank have been discontinued last year.


These parts was earlier suggested.

 

..and this was finally adopted and used.

 

 

Fuji Alconite Guides

 

Handle fixed..

then the decal

 

Guides wrapped..

 

A close-up view on the wrapping after epoxy.

 

Completed rod.

 

A closer look at the reel seat.

Just in case you wondered how the other Lamiglas EXCEL looked like..

here it is...