Rebuilding the Techna "Japanese" AV

A hot and steamy rod rebuilding story... LOL .. just for the name's sake.

It's other rod rebuilding to give a new lease of life to a old custom built rod from a Techna AV blank.

Started the stripping process...

Hard labor...

Everything was stripped down until the reel seat.
The rod will have all new components expect the reel seat and a set of recycle Fuji titanium SiC guides.

A new Fuji graphite winding check to sealed up the reel seat opening which was only covered with EVA and a metallic thread wrapping to finish off the unfinish part.

The new split cork handle with aluminum spacer and rubberised butt cap.

Recycle Fuji Titanium SiC guides in spiral placement half way done..

Guides done..

Matching color to the existing wrapping in burgundy and that wraps it up.
Another project accomplished.

Refurbishment cork handle of Fenwick Techna AV

Another cork handle refurbishment project which I did over the weekends.

The rear cork handle was damaged by pest... suspected cockroaches and the EVA butt cap was not spared either.

A closer look at the damages.

The damaged parts was carefully removed

Selection of cork rings for replacement

Off site fabrication of the replacement part

New section of cork handle was reattached with epoxy. The color or shades of the new and old cork grip are obviously very different.

Sanding to the whole handle to remove the stain on the old section and also smoothen the joint area making it seamless.  And that's it.... DONE.