Munster IZ's Baitcaster from RF GT-Zero Blank



I have never tested nor built any of this blank before although I have seen their advertisement and promotion film on YouTube and some people commented how great this blank is.... 



I do not know about others but I personally don't really fancy this blank.

Cosmetically this blank is matt finished and a glance at it, it look like a Lamiglas blank but the matt effect is sprayed on.

The matt coating will come off if scratched with hard object, hooks or lures.

The original finish of this blank is gloss black and this can be observed when you peel off the rod decal.

This blank has a fast action similar to any bass fishing blank and the bending moment is very forgiving. It doesn't feel like any IM6 blanks, but very similar to PacBay Quickline blank.  

Well, that is just my personally point of view.

Back to building it.....

Custom gloss black Fuji ECS reel seat.

Handle setting

Carbon tube at split grip and the exposed reel seat area.







Wrapping to guides

Epoxy process

Completed rod

Refurbishing handle of a Vintage EAGLE CLAW

I am just showing the completed refurbished handle or rather completely newly built handle for the Eagle Claw fly rod.

The existing cork handle was really in bad shape...  the owner should know how bad was it.. LOL

Handle remodelling - SHIMANO Cumara

A total reconstruction of the handle from a split grip to a single hand grip handle.

The rod at its' original state.

Completely stripped out and 6" of the butt section was cut.

Retaining the butt cap for this rod.

3" of the blank was wrapped with metallic thread for the skeleton reel seat. I am using PacBay skeleton reel seat to retaining the original reel seat design of this rod.

Test fitting the reel seat.

New EVA rear grip.

Existing butt cap reinstall.

The new single hand grip completed.

BAMBOO fly rod - The grass of streams -

Adding this to my Bamboo built is a small little bamboo rod for streams.
This is a Winston taper, 6' 2pc 1 tip 3wt.

Up locking vintage looking wood insert reel mounted to a reversed half wells cork grip. The snake guides are wrapped with gold silk thread.

Nickel silver ferrule.

FG703 - Fiberglass Fly Rod

Another FG703 was built due to demand for this rod. This Olive green fiberglass fly rod is 7' 3pc 3wt.

This rod is very managable and easy to handle.

Another "Olive Green" fiberglass fly rod...

Here is another 3wt "Olive Green" fiberglass fly rod that I managed to built during the long break last week.

This blank profile is almost similar but the total length is 7' instead of 6'6".

Setting up the handle , marking the guide spacing and locating the spine.

Wrapping with Olive green thread with a single silver trim. This aluminum reel seat is a triangular reel seat with a center tubing.

And finally, I manage to find a pen to write on the blank. 
Don't have to worry about smearing the blank with metallic ink .

* Learn something new.....................

St Croix 6-12lb with Abalone Veneer inlay and full MATAGI components.

This built was requested after seeing the abalone inlay on the MHX.

This SCIII blank is a 2pc 6-12lb.

A closer look at the painted MATAGI reel seat.

Setting up the handle length and spacing before fixing the abalone veneer inlay.

Starting off by cutting the veneer sheet to size and fix it onto the blank.

1st epoxy coating applied.

The 1st coating of epoxy was roughen with sand paper and wrapping are done on the epoxy coating.

A final layer of epoxy to the Abalone veneer inlay.

Then the handles and reel seat are fitted in, leaving the butt cap to be done at a later stage.

Rod decal fixed prior epoxy coating.

Sample wrapping

After epoxy...

Handle with abalone veneer done up.

MATAGI butt cap.

COMPLETED ROD