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[bream reaper]

Thanks again. The grips are the standard Fuji cork split grips that I marble. They are nice and hard and don't fade or get dirty like the plain cork. I will say that they can get slippery when its raining a lot or you get fish slime on them. I use fingerless gloves now so they can't slip out no matter what.
Cheers, Jan.

[Damo]

I think you underrate your work also it's sweet wish could wrap like that or can i hmmm not qite as good, how long have you been doing it Jan?
I also love building rods, i have done the spider also and it's not hard but very time consuming, i done 16 spiders up my surf stick one day i'll get it finished....Cheers Damo

[Damo]

ok

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[bream reaper]

Nice job Damo, well done on such a long wrap. Did you do two different rods as in one pic its blue and the other its seems green or is that the camera?.

Cheers, Jan.

[Damo]

Cheers, yeah the first pic was a second ditch effort on a mates rod it turned out sweeter than mine mates
Yeah Dave, i have done heaps but i try to stick to simple builds now but if someone wants one i do them but it does strain the eyes and back...

[Damo]

couple more

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they are unfinished in this pic i forgot to take pics once i packed and 2 parted them

And here is a pic of the lastone i done on my Snarr ...

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[crusty]

The pictures of the rods with the marbled handles and the article that went with them in the GoFish magazine early this year convinced me to build a Hasting bream rod up (see my thread of a couple of months ago). Although I left the grips plain cork as I was concerned the epoxy could get slippery.
Had heaps of hassles (especially with the epoxy) getting the rod to just an ordinary standard, hats off to anyone who can build this well.

I've just started another rod and looking at the binds I'm going to have go back to the Hastings and rebind the guides it at some stage. But I might do some fishing with it first.

Crusty

[bream reaper]

Thanks Crusty,

It's nice to get a bit of feedback about the articles. At least I know one person has read it, . Yeah a bit of fish slime makes the grips slippery but I wear fingerless gloves so doesn't worry me now. Good luck with the next rod.

Cheers, Jan.

[tacklerat]

The pictures of the rods with the marbled handles and the article that went with them in the GoFish magazine early this year convinced me to build a Hasting bream rod up (see my thread of a couple of months ago). Although I left the grips plain cork as I was concerned the epoxy could get slippery.
Had heaps of hassles (especially with the epoxy) getting the rod to just an ordinary standard, hats off to anyone who can build this well.

I've just started another rod and looking at the binds I'm going to have go back to the Hastings and rebind the guides it at some stage. But I might do some fishing with it first.

Crusty

Hi Crusty,What edition was that article in I did not get it unfortunately looking at those rods I would be interested in the hastings bream blank specks myself,cheers

[bream reaper]

Here is the recipe from the article Tacklerat.
Cheers, Jan.

Flicken the light fantastic

RECIPE:

• Hastings Pioneer – PUR70UL 1-2kg in either one or two piece

• Guides Titanium: Fuji TATSG- 25,16,12,10,8 TLSG 7,6,6 Tip TFST 6/2.0

• Spacing from center of tip to next guide in cm 9,10,11,13,16,19,22,28

• Fuji IPS Deluxe Split Grip with Silver winding checks

• Paints for marbling are Testors enamel in black and silver or whatever colours you want
to use.