SUKH's MHX CS721

I promised my friend that I will make him a rod, but I forgot to tell him the date and the duration when he will get it...

He ended up waiting "half of the pregnancy" before he got his rod.

: )

This is a new 2012 blank model from MHX.  At 6' of length and rated at 6-10lb.

For the reel seat, it will be a FUJI ACS gloss painted with carbon tube insert at the exposed blank window.

Testing fitting of rear EVA grip.

Another black and red theme with full length EVA handle.



Choices of KDPS foregrip from Matagi.

Eni meni mini moe............................. and he picked the one right in front of his nose.



Matching KDPS carbon printed hood for the reel seat.

Simple metallic red trims on the wrapping.

More guides.....

Finally done. For a moment, it seems like I have been wrapping the guides forever...



My scribbling and the rod decal...

And it goes on the drying jig for epoxy.

Lastly, the butt cap attached.

The next day after the rod was collected, it went for a test drive at a jungle perch spot.. landed a few palm size but the large ones always got away..

WW - High Modulus MHX

This is the 1st time I have got the chance to built a rod from a high modulus blank from MHX. HM-DS8515 at a length of 7'1" and rated 8-12lb with sensitive tip for extra fast action.

The rod will be finished with all Matagi components of purple.

Custom gloss black painted reel seat by Matagi.

Initial stage would be planning the design of the handle and fabrication of the handle.

The proposed design..

Eventually it ended up with a curvy groove.

Test fitting the handle.

Detachable butt cap for balancer plate.

The carbon imprinted KDPS was finished off with an EVA fore grip and a purple aluminium trim ring.

Matching metallic thread for wrapping

Metallic purple wrapping was used for finishing in front of the fore grip as there isn't any lip stick winding check in purple colour.

Test wrapping

All guides are up



The weight of the rod without the balancer plate is at 118g.

And with the balancer plate is weighs at 127g.

Laying the custom rod decal before epoxying.

 

Double layer of Threadmaster epoxy.

The blank came with a rod sock.

It's  done... well, not perfectly done but will try to do it better next time..

A simple K-guided SPINNING rod

This will be a very simple 6'6" 6-12lb spinning rod. A straight forward built with MHX blank and Fuji standard Versatile spinning reel seat.

The EVA fighting butt used for the end. Simple feather inlay was done at the split butt area.

Anti tangle K-guides

part of the K-guides on the rod.

 And when it is all done....

Just the HANDLE....

I have got this one time special request from a friend who just wanted me to do up the handle.

Yup, just the handle. Maybe my wrappings and epoxy work is not up to par.  : )

He says, "simple handle will do like the Shimano Poison Glorious rod ONLY"
Gosh.. that simple huh! I will just try la... but ain't sure what will come out..

Stacked and glued the cork rings that he hand-picked himself... no joke!
Extra grade... super AAA grade , what's the difference??? nothing really..!

The glued stacked cork rings was left to dry for a couple of days before it was shaped.

Components was then fitted to it for a test.

Fitting the fighting butt.

Fitting KDPS hood to the ECS custom gloss black painted reel seat with MATAGI butt cap at the background. Then the cork foregrip, rear grip and fighting butt was sealed with U-40 Corkseal.

 Fitting the rear grip.

Fixing the short carbon tube to the fighting butt. 

The 2mm gap between the cork and the carbon tube sealed with epoxy. The diameter of this area had to be made smaller to fit in the aluminum trim. The handle project stopped here for a day to let the epoxy to cure.

Later, the female part ( screw ) of the butt cap was inserted in the carbon tube before the fighting butt and other parts were glued on.

After the complete assembly of the handle, the blank was inserted and glued.

The top part of the reel seat was sealed off with Fuji graphite winding check.

The gap between the blank and reel seat opening sealed with Fuji graphite winding check.

At last, the opening at the foregrip was made bigger to fit the OD of the blank.

So, did I do want my friend wanted????

The answer is NO...!!!! LOL......

He wanted the shape of this...

But I gave him this.......

A more sexier glass hour....

Hahahahahaha...............  :P