The refurbishment and repair of Phillipson Fly Fox

This was a request from a friend to repair this Phillipson Fly Fox fly rod which was crack above the cork grip and have the cork grip replaced.

I do not know what causes the cracks but it was quite severe. I had to do a fiberglas insertion to the cracked area and another round of wrapping above it.

The cracks are found at the rod decals area.

The condition of the cork grip.

Stacking up of cork rings for new grip

New cork grip shaped and the hardware of the old handle was removed.

 

A 9" fiberglas blank to be inserted in the the FLy Fox at the cracked area.

The old cork grip was stripped and to be replaced with a new one.

New handle replace and a layer of cork seal was applied onto it.

The slidng band and bottom cap was fixed. After the cork seal dried, the cork handle looked seasoned.

Internal strenghtening done, now the external reinforcement.
The cracked area was wrapped with white silk thread.

The silk thread wrapped all around covering the rod decal.

Later, a layer of epoxy was applied onto the silk thread wrapping.. and the silk thread became transparent showing the rod decal underneath it.

There... it's all done. Replaced, repaired and the old rod decal remain...