The RED SAGE wannabe..

This is a 9' 5wt 4 section red blank. The color is quite similar to SAGE fly rod in red.

The components used are also similar to SAGE. Full wells Grade AAA cork grip and anodized black uplocking aluminum reel seat with a little fighting butt at the bottom.

Hybrid graphite arbors for the reel seat.

Testing fitting the handle.

ALPS titanium zirconium strip guides and REC snake guides.

A closer look at the titanium guide

I used RED nylon thread to give the similar looks as the SAGE rod. The epoxy finished thread will be slightly translucent and the guide foot will be seen after epoxy.

Rod decal was not available and as per request, hand cribble will do...

Completed product...

2/3 WT WHITE fiberglass fly rod

This is a new series... well, not so new as of now.. translucent white fiberglass fly rod blank that I received a few months ago.

It has got lesser dirt in the blank wall. The quality of the fiberglass blank has improve tremendously compared to those I got a few years back.

Going to built it simple with a burled wood insert downlocking reel seat and a reverse half wells cork handle.

Prep stripping guide and snake guide.

Pearsall's Silk Thread for wrapping.

Silk wrapped..

First epoxy coating

Finishing coat

The overall view of the completed rod.

SOLD - TQ..

Testing my No. 4 bamboo rod...

I finished this 6wt rod a few months back but have yet to test it out in the field.

 

Finally I managed to test this in fish farm in Bedong. I caught a few Barramundi of decent size... but this one was of good fight... and good size too..

It was a good 45 minutes fight and I landed this.. and my integrated bamboo ferrule bamboo rod is still holding well...