Medium Duty St Croix BC rod

It has been always ultra light and light rods.... but this time round, I have a medium St Croix blank to play with.

A 6'6" St Croix SC2 medium power fast action blank is up for built.

Initial design setup on paper. But that is just a preliminary design and it often ended up differently at the end of the process.

Then the actual set up take place. Measurement of handle and grips marked.

KDPS quick lock carbon printed on the hood with extended carbon tube.

                                        

Fuji Reel seat with internal poly urethane arbor

Fixing up reel seat and pipe winding check to the blank

Test fitting rod handle setting before gluing up.

This is what I was talking about, variation order.  Additional aluminum tubing to the exposed blank at the split grip section. 

The new look.

Inserted the foregrip and wrapping to the guides

And straight to the drying jig for epoxy..... after 24 hours



Lamiglas graphite BC casting rod for ADE

People always have the perception that Lamiglas blanks are glass blanks because of their brand name. Lamiglas equals to fiberglass.


Lamiglas makes great honey yellow colored fiberglass fly rod blanks but they also have some nice graphite blanks too.

Lamiglas blank have very nice black finishing. This 6'6" rated 6-15lb blank was cropped 6" from the butt making it a six footer. This might take 4lb off the butt power.

 

Shaping of the full EVA grip.

Intended design is a full EVA handle with a gloss painted Fuji ACS trigger reel seat coupled with a Matagi Carbon painted KDPS with foregrip.

 

Test fitting the complete handle.



Fitting the handle with aluminum trim parts and butt cap



Comparing two handle of different material and design.

Simple black wrapping with metallic gold trim to match the gold aluminum trim parts.

11+1 guides on this rod

Lamiglas and Matagi rod decals



The completed rod for ADE.

St Croix ML with MATAGI components

Another St Croix blank built. This 3S63MLXF blank is rated 4~8lb and 6'3" in length.

And it will be built with Matagi components.

Handle setting out before I shape the EVA rear grip and fighting butt.

Red aluminum trim parts with carbon tube insert on ACS reel seat and carbon tube for split grip exposed blank.

Testing fitting the handle parts before I apply epoxy to assemble the components permanently.

Fully Japan Fuji SiC guides. There are 11 guides and a tip on this rod but you see only 10 here as the last one is not able to fit in the photo. My friend told me that this rod is full of rings for  a 6'3" rod...!!  Yup, how I wish I could put lesser!!

I fixed up more guides to prevent the lines from running across the blank when the rod is loaded during the ' fish fight'. Similar to the micro guide system, more micro guides are used.

A rear view

Rod decals

And the rod will be pairing with this reel....


11th June 2012, this rod went for a trial test... Peacock Bass

The real test is yet to COME..

So much for Peacock Bass,.... on the 20th June, this little rod went fighting with a few giant..... snakehead and succeeded.

What else next???