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....