Lamiglas for Jeremy

The latest fiberglass casting rod I built is for Jeremy aka JC Mountain. He is not a "casting" type of guy but I hope with this fiberglass casting will change his view especially on the fiberglass rod.

As I was building the rod , I took photos of the rod and posted it on FB so that he knows the progress of his rod.

Here are the photos of the rod.

The 7' blank was shorten by 3" for easy storage ( in his monster truck ) and easy manouvering on the canoe.
Started off the reel seat. Fuji ACS.

Shaping of cork grips and fighting butt. I always believed that "Honey Yellow" Lamiglas blank goes well with cork grips.

Fitting up the cork grip and fighting butt.

He wanted to put his signature on the rod. After 30 minutes of discussion, finally we found a place for his signature..... on the butt. I meant on the butt of the rod, just above the cork fighting butt.

Next would be the selection of thread colors. He picked burgundy red with gold thread spiral.

Before the actual thing, I did a sample wrap to the 3" cut off piece, with CP and without CP.

Top one with CP and the bottom one without CP.

After epoxy, the one with CP looks slightly brighter and this is the one he wanted.



I started with the hook keeper and he was kinda skeptical about the combination at first. Some friends commented that it look like sari. I had to take another photo a few feet away to convince him that it looks okay..

Can carry on with the rest...

When he saw the photos of my other builtd, he liked the feather inlay I did on the Lamiglas fly rod.

Looks classic... he says. Sure, I did that for him..  a double sided one. We called it " The Yin and the Yang".

The feather....then the eye..

and... the other side..

Lamiglas logo placed in between the Yin and Yang

Then the finish epoxy. It took a couple layers of epoxy to cover the feather inlay.

After a few weeks ........

Done... I am happy with this built , I hope he is too....

More photos of the "GORILLA" boat rod

It turned out to be a "OK"..

That's it....

Am looking forward for another rod project....

The last 10% of the boat rod

Finally the last of the 10% of my boat rod... is in progress..

It's on the dry jig right now.....

My first boat rod for my dad

Started this rod project a month ago but I just managed to finished 90% of it. I have been tied up with my day job lately..

I purchased this Gorilla Offshore series blank from Mudhole. It's a tubular 6'6" glass blank with a solid glass tip and line weighted at 30~50lb.

Standard EVA fore and rear grip with a size 24 Fuji DPSH  heavy duty graphite reel seat. Finally, I have a rod to try out the dragon scale deco wrapping.

I used mono line for the base wrap and metallic red thread for the finishing wrap.
I am not sure why they always use metallic threads for heavy salt water rods but I just follow the way it is.

I think I still need more practice. The outcome of this dragon scale wrapping seems okay but I think the scale is slightly too big. I think it will look nicer if it is smaller.

I did a double layer wrapping for the guides, 1 base wrap and another top wrapping on the guides. I used metallic gold thread for that. It is not easy to do wrapping on top of another wrap. The base thread must be packed tightly so that no gaps should on the base wrap, in order to have a seamless top wrap over the guides.

My dad's previous boat rod had a normal straight guide placement and it was broken as the blank was damaged by the fishing line. So, I decided to do a spiral guide placement (Acid wrap) for this rod.

Now, I need to epoxy the rod and guide to complete the last 10% of it. I have never done any massive epoxy job before,  I hope it will goes well.

Continuation of the 2pc 6'6" BROWN unsanded fiberglass 3wt Fly Rod

I was out of fly top for this rod and had to put on hold till it arrived. And finally, it's completed.

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Replacing EVA grip and reel seat for spinning rod

Simple and straight forward task.

Remove old grip and reel seat. Clean up the blank to receive new EVA grip and reel seat. Originally it was a normal reel seat setup but change to split grip setup with carbon effect vinyl inlay.

Original condition

Hypalon fore grip , rear grip and reel seat removed. Epoxy residue removed.

Install new EVA split grip and reel seat

Carbon effect vinyl inlay

Completed face lift of spinning reel seat and split grip.

2 piece 6'6" 3wt BROWN fiberglass fly rod

I picked up something new on the rodbuilding forum recently, actually 2. The Olive branch wrap and also the dragon scale wrap invented by Jim Trelikes.

Since the dragon scale wrap is for bigger rod, I will start off with the Olive branch wrap to my fly rods. Without looking on the "how to's", I have no idea how they are able to make that design by just wrapping the threads.
After going through some step-by-step lessons online, I just have to wrap that on my rod.

I did the  Olive branch wrap to the hook keeps and the ferrules area.

There is a few more wrappings to do before the epoxy process.

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