folks i kind of got cut off trying to finish that post. I meant to thank everyone that looked and I figured folks didn't want to respond because they didn't feel comfortable guessing at a price. that didn't sound the way it was supposed to and I do apologize for it. hard to place a price on a custom made rod because well there is only one of them.

Tell you one thing they put me on new meds for my back and they are messing me up a bit. placed a 8gb flash memory card from my camera on the desk somewhere last night and now it is gone. aaarrgghhh!

I will post when the rod goes up for auction. I am thinking about throwing in a martin mountain brook large arbor reel:

http://www.martinfishing.com/mountain_brookLA.html

and a wf-5-f cortland line too.