hay lotech i'll post up some photos soon been working on some other things
hay lotech i'll post up some photos soon been working on some other things
Everything I've seen so far looks like a work of art! Can't wait to see the finished product!!!
Sorry for the delay in updates. I have been working on a few other projects and had sidelined this rod for a bit. Over the last few days as we get ready to dip the rod I started on my finish work, I have now re-epoxied the furals onto the rod and started to wrap them. I will say that I'm not happy with the size of the step the furals cause so I?m thinking about how to fix this for a nice clean wrap. Also upon a closer inspection I found that the original reel seat did not allow for a proper fit of the reel feet. To fix this I needed to remove the whole seat and re-cut the thumbnail. In having to do this, I learned that my glue job was a in fact a very good one as the only thing to let go after soaking the seat in boiling water for a while, was the connecting rod and hood. With this rod being broken I now needed to drill out the 3/8 hole to remove the old rod. I also needed to change the reel seat wood as, no matter what I did the one that I used was not willing to work with me. The old wood finally gave up the seat hard ware after leaving it directly on the wood stove for an hour and I still had to struggle to remove the hardware. The new Seat wood has been sanded and polished and a coat of minwax added. After one more coat of minwax I will be had whipping on a few coats of helmsman to give the seat a glasslike shine.
All finished
Ok so finally the kingfisher is all done. dipped and ready to fish!!
- In finishing the Kingfisher I found that the furals had too much of a step to neatly wrap as is. What was done was a two part plumbers epoxy was used and shaped while keeping wet then wrapping after it dried and sanded.
- Another shot of the finished grip.
- this is a shot of the tiptop and mid section female
- A shot of the lettering and of the winding check from the original grip.
- this is the tip in the original rod holder.
- this is a shot of the but section in the rod holder
- This is the re covered rod holder that was original to the rod
- This is the new sock
- This is a closer view of the grain of the seat
Definitely looking better than when I had it. Now you just need to generate some fish pictures with it.
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