CRB 12-25 Heavy Cover

Here's another heavy cover rod that I managed to complete recently.

Basic ingredients are CRB blank, ALPS MVT reel seat and SEA-GUIDE guides.

SEA-GUIDE KR concept guides

Rubberize cork butt with decorative trimming.

Setting up of EVA grips

Aluminum trimming between reel seat and rear grip.

A closer look at the decorative trimming at the butt cap.

Reel seat full handle setup and test fit.

Guide wrapping - Black thread with metallic red trim

Epoxy over rod decal.

Epoxy over guide wrapping.

Completed epoxy to guides.

Guide lined up

Completed rod ...

Completing the ROD

Weaving the rod (decoration) is one thing, completing it , is another thing...

Upon completing the weaving, then the reel seat comes in.

After a few layers of epoxy coating... I do not want to elaborate on the epoxy and sanding process. 

Then the guides.

I am trying a new brand of guides for this rod. Nice and cheap guides from China with SiC rings for a fraction of the price of Fuji guides.  I guess no harm trying it on ultralight rod.

Dark brown wrapping with light brown trim complimenting the colors of the rod weaving.

After epoxy.

Done, KR concept guide ultralight spinning rod.

MHX 6'6" 2-6lb KR Concept UL Spinning

I have built a few UL rods recently and most of it are in 1 section. This time a 2 piece UL rod. Building a 1 piece rod is no difference from a 2 piece rod, just have to make sure the spine is aligned to each other.

Found some loose pieces of Pacbay skeleton spinning reel seat laying around in my rod parts drawer and I decided to use it. The locking hood and threaded barrel are from Fuji. Carbon tube insert was used for the mix and match skeleton reel seat.

After getting this fix, then I realised it looked like the reel seat used for Daiwa Aird. Just that they did not use carbon tube insert.

The completed handle.

Fuji KR guide system with size #4.5 guides at the top.
Black thread wrapping to the guide with 1 coating of epoxy.

Now the fun part. Metallic marbling effect was done to the 2nd coating of epoxy.
Have to do it really thin as I want to minimise the weight added to the rod especially the tip area. 

Marbling effect also applies the the wrapping at the winding checks.

The completed MHX- KR Concept Guide system

Zeds KR-Concept Spinning

Building of a KR Concept spinning rod from the St Croix SC3 6-12lb fast action blank.

The main ingredient ... SC3 - 3S60MF

Accessories :

Fuji Alconite KL guides

Fuji VSS reel seat with KDPS hood and EVA fore grip. Actual planned for EVA butt piece but later was changed to aluminum deco butt cap.

Setting up of handle. The split handle is actually shorter in the completed rod.

Rod decal installation with metallic wrapping at both ends.

Metallic trimming at exposed blank of the split grip area.

Metallic thread wrapping to KL guides pending epoxy.

After-epoxy effect. Turned slightly darker in shades.

View of full guides after epoxy.

Completed handle.