New Cane Build
Just off the bench.......... here is a sweet little 2pc. 2 tip , 6ft. 3/4wt. blonde. Built on a Winston Taper with Nickle silver ferrules, brown wraps with some green highlites. The seat is dark walnut with 2 coats of tru-oil to match the wraps ,and sports a nice matching end cap of the same wood.
Test cast with 3wt plastic and 4wt cortland sylk it lays out a nice line 35-40ft ,and should be a nice delicate dry fly rod for those smaller streams.........Ed
Very nice!
Relaxed and now a Full Time Trout Bum, Est. 2024
The wood reel seat butt is a subtle and beautiful addition. Nice work.
nice!
did you build the blank as well?
Nice added touch in wrapping the ferrule, ala R. L. Winston!
Bob
When you can arrange your affairs to go fishing, forget all the signs, homilies, advice and folklore. JUST GO.
Beautiful rod.
Dave
P.S. I've got a birthday coming up-hint,hint!
Another great looking rod, Ed. Really like the reel seat / butt cap and the wrapping colors. Sounds like it will be a great small stream rod.
John
The fish are always right.
It's good look'n. How much did that whole rod cost you?
To answer 2 questions that have come up on this post so far,
First:
I did not make the blank. I had it made for me. I am a "Rodbuilder" not a "blank maker".
Be it cane , or graphite the cost of making quality blanks money wise,is out of my reach to tool up for. As long as quality blanks are offered I will continue to build on them and mark them appropriatley as to origin.
Second:
The cost of this particular rod ..material wise was over $300. Which does not include any labor.
Last edited by ET custom flyrods; 05-27-2009 at 01:27 PM.
Very nice! Should be fun to use.
Jim
Born to fish - forced to work.
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