The Green B@$tard

[JayP]

Started on what will be a new rod for a new club water I'll be fishing this year. The blank in an 8' 3# - 4 and is on the slightly faster side of medium fast, if I hadn't lost my bag of shrapnel I'd let you know what the ERN and AA are pre and post build.

The grip which I finally got round to finishing today is a 7" snubbed nose half wells, green burl with green duplon accents and green rubberised cork front and back.








The reel seat is a nickel silver uplocker with a stabilised spalted beech insert, which is currently drying before the final turn, finish and polish.



Guides which I'm still waiting on being delivered are REC recoil single foots with REC stripper and tip top, wraps are probably going to be pea green with metallic green trim.

I'll update as I go

 

[petevicar]

Looks great so far.

I would be very interested to see updates.

 

[JayP]

Looks great so far.

I would be very interested to see updates.

Thanks Pete, just waiting on the guides so I can crack on, I do have 5 other rods to build so won't be sitting about twiddling my thumbs

 

[petevicar]

Thanks Pete, just waiting on the guides so I can crack on, I do have 5 other rods to build so won't be sitting about twiddling my thumbs

Are they for you or for customers?

 

[JayP]

Are they for you or for customers?

Three for me two for others

 

[petevicar]

I built four rods last winter. They haven't been used yet.

What will you use your's for?

 

[JayP]

I built four rods last winter. They haven't been used yet.

What will you use your's for?

I've a 10' 3#, 9' 5# and a 9' 8# first two for trout and the 8# is a light SWFF and Zander rod. Then a 9' 5# and a 7' 3# glass for friends

 

[JayP]

That time when you should just go with your gut, green and green or green and brass?

 

[glosterboy]

Looks great so far, I like the green inserts on the cork but what do you mean by Duplon?

 

[JayP]

Looks great so far, I like the green inserts on the cork but what do you mean by Duplon?

EVA Duplon https://www.guidesnblanks.com/p/coloured_duplon_eva

It's what I've always known it as, maybe a trade name.

 

[codyarrow]

Green and green.

 

[glosterboy]

EVA Duplon https://www.guidesnblanks.com/p/coloured_duplon_eva

It's what I've always known it as, maybe a trade name.

Thanks
That looks like a nice way of having a measurement built into the handle. I have to report fish over 8" on my catch returns. If I build anymore for the river I'll give it a go.

 

[JayP]

Green and green.

Great, that's decided

 

[Lewis Chessman]

Looking great, Jay. Will you use cp on the lighter green to match the Duplon rings or go darker?
I so admire you guys who make your own grips and inserts (and that's a cracker!). It's an area I must branch into soon. It makes the build totally yours - well bar the ironmongery!
Best of luck as you progress with it.

 

[JayP]

Looking great, Jay. Will you use cp on the lighter green to match the Duplon rings or go darker?
I so admire you guys who make your own grips and inserts (and that's a cracker!). It's an area I must branch into soon. It makes the build totally yours - well bar the ironmongery!
Best of luck as you progress with it.

Thanks James , I'm going to do test wraps with and without CP to see what looks best, the blank is a very dark matt green so darkening the 'pea soup' thread may well be needed.

The lathe is great especially as I have big hands and hold the grip Borger style for most of my fishing so the 7'1/2" snub-nosed half wells work well for me in 5# and lighter.

Lathes, yep get one, you'll spend hours and hours looking online at wood blanks for that next insert you don't need

My next project is making single foot NiTi guides

 

[codyarrow]

Battery drills are so good now we have not used corded drills for years at work. So I turned a spare one into a makeshift lathe for turning handles. Up in the loft, if I get respite from the decorating I'll get a pic. Easy make from scarp wood- only thing extra to buy is some coasters.

 

[ROVER]

Started on what will be a new rod for a new club water I'll be fishing this year. The blank in an 8' 3# - 4 and is on the slightly faster side of medium fast, if I hadn't lost my bag of shrapnel I'd let you know what the ERN and AA are pre and post build.

The grip which I finally got round to finishing today is a 7" snubbed nose half wells, green burl with green duplon accents and green rubberised cork front and back.

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The reel seat is a nickel silver uplocker with a stabilised spalted beech insert, which is currently drying before the final turn, finish and polish.

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Guides which I'm still waiting on being delivered are REC recoil single foots with REC stripper and tip top, wraps are probably going to be pea green with metallic green trim.

I'll update as I go

Is it rebated or eccentric where the reel foot will sit, cant see from this angle?

 

[JayP]

Is it rebated or eccentric where the reel foot will sit, cant see from this angle?

21mm round inlet on this one, I drill the shive with a modified flat drill bit before gluing up the grip

 

[ROVER]

Different things were talking about here, I'm talking about the longitudinal rebate/flatter part on a lot of fly reel seats where the base of the foot sits. You normally mortice them using a modified fingernail router bit or turn an eccentric 'flat' on an offset spindle

 

[JayP]

The reel seat on this build doesn't need a mortice just a tenon for the threaded part of the hardware.