6', 2pc Bamboo

[kbproctor]

This is a sweet little rod I built from a mismatched tip and mid section of who knows what tapers. The reel seat is an American Tackle DL5 with an Oak Burl insert. The grip was made from some much less than perfect cork wrapped with rattan. I used thread and epoxy to smooth the transition from grip to blank. A former local rod builder gave me a bunch of stuff that included the stripper. I had a set of nickel plated ferrules that had been left in the cleaning solution too long but fit both sections perfectly and were nice and tight so I just wrapped them to hide how I had screwed them up. The guides are wrapped with garnet tipped with black. Everything finished in polyurethane.

It casts really nice.

[Betty Hiner]

Very kewl!!!!

[texfly]

Looks great to me Kevin. What weight does it cast?

[kbproctor]

Looks great to me Kevin. What weight does it cast?

It's a 3w. I even have a new reel for it.

[Fly Goddess]

Miss matched pieces?????? So you threw the idea of an actual taper out the window, right?

[Eric-WD]

He recycled sections of two different rods to make up one rod. I have sections of four rods ready to do this with if I ever get the time/guts/money/space to attempt them.

Miss matched pieces?????? So you threw the idea of an actual taper out the window, right?