Fini!! At long last it is done. Spent a ton of time on it and guess what... it still isn't perfect! But not to bad for $35 or so. Everything oldschool... Fenwick style grip, spigot ferrule, dipped with 3 coats of spar polyurethane (I'll let you figure out how I accomplished that... hee hee!), and a wrap pattern based after the old Wanigas and Phillipson rods. My tried and true color preserver finally let me down (not sure why) and there are some small partial bleed throughs (oh well). Spar on the wraps and then all rubbed down and polished to knock down the gloss a bit and even everything out. Before coating the wraps I took it out and cast it and thought it was a dandy 4 wt, no heavier, and could possibly carry a 3 wt, but didn't try it. I will cast it once more tomorrow after work. All in all a fun, yet time consuming build. I would gladly keep this rod for myself, but I'm sure Mr. Sherrick won't let me do that. I hope whoever gets it enjoys it. Here are the photos.