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Yup stick more puckem ducky on it(epoxy),it does look good.

Fiinish product if its what you desire thats all that matters.

These are pics right after applying the second coat of epoxy(Yup, dried this time!). It's still leveling out though. I used a heat gun after applying epoxy as it thins quite a bit with just a tad of heat. Applying heat did two things. It thinned the epoxy which, I believe, promotes thread saturation and positive contact between thread and blank. And it helps with the initial flow. My story and I'm stickin' to it!!!!!

And a picture of one of the micro-guides. They're amazingly small but supposed to work very well. Guess we'll find out in a couple of weeks. I'll put the first coat of epoxy on tonight. Clean up any nibs after it dries and apply the second coat tomorrow. Then "should" be ready to go. Next up is my favorite/only pitching stick….

I love the spiral wrap or Roberts wrap (Chuck Roberts Steamboat Springs Col) he held the patent which is now no longer in effect.Micro never used them.

Ive taken the epoxy one buys in a tube then work in hands like grey putty it works to set the used blank in a used handle,then painted with green on a glass rod came out very bright like chart.,after which a lil clear coat spray from a can,even with such crude eq came out semi decent .

No one would steal it thats for sure,to short to bright to odd,great crankbait rod for ohio river barge fishing,where one is close to ones work.After about ten years the thread wrap is quite lacking but still usable.

I had a buddy who supplied me with broken rods on a regular basis,back then.

Welp… It's on the drying rack…

Looks "ok" but probably…. won't win any awards. I'm satisfied with it for the first wrap when considering also chunked in a sprial wrap with micro guides. Them micro guides are a pain. I used the Fuji 9 guide + tip concept. The rod originally had 7 guides so the old spots are kinna visible but I'll try some rubbing compound to clean them up a tad. What the heck the rod is about 11 years old. Oh yeah… the guides are alconites.

YEAH! You messin' wid me! But I'm the forgiving type so when I come up there I'll spend some valuable time(mine) "teaching" you the concept of c'riggin'!

You been tryin' to get a rise outta me fer tha' last few post…. Just proves the old addage… If at first ya' don't succeed…

Anywho… all'a that aside… I now have 6 guides wrapped(sans the metallic thread). One more on the spline(spine) the two to complete the spiral wrap. In keeping with what I was told I set the stripper guide just a few degrees off the centerline to start the spirial. According to the guy I talked to he said too many folks run the spiral up the blank. Looks real nice… and makes the rod torque under tension. He said… complete the spiral before you get into the rod action. So I did!

You keep messin' wid me n' I'll have Janet put a whuppin' on ya'!

DW's Custom Rod building and repair is now in business!!! Hahahaha!

Got the stripper guide wrapped. Turquoise metallic/black per CastAway standards!

Sure I'll post pictures but I doubt you'll laugh… I kinna annal about things like this and I'll unwrap every guide and start over if I don't like it before I epoxy it.

Will say one thing… Having done all of one guide with the hand wrapper… I'm glad I got the hand wrapper. Maybe someday as my skill level grows a power wrapper might make sense but right now 1 rpm at a constant speed would probably be waaaay to fast!

This "was" a telescopic flipping stick but I've put the stripper guide such that it no longer will be telescopic – which I never utilized anyway. Doing the stripper guide, which is basically a standard sized guide #12-I think but it may be a #10. Getting started was tough enough with it – the micro-guides oughta be a trip!

Okiee Dokiee… pulled the trigger on a wrapping system… Hand wrapping system. Got a 6 rpm drying set-up to go with it. The hand wrapper has two thread tensioning devices and has a sliding(dove tail setup) thread guide. Fishing Tackle Unlimited did have the new K-guides in stock but I opted for the micro-guides. Those things ain't much taller than the 50# braid I use!

First rod on the list C'rig rod. It's been needing the guides re-wrapped for several years but instead of simply re-wrapping them I'm going to replace them with the micro guides and do a spiral wrap while I'm at it.

The guy at Fishing Tackle Unlimited is a rod wrapper and he showed me some of his work and such. Also wrapped a few guides and showed me some of the in's and out's of it – most of which I've probably already forgotten. But I think I remember enough to get this rod wrapped and make it look and behave fairly decently.