First Look at the Tiburon 20/0 Senator Frames: A Work in Process

[Vintage Offshore Tackle]

I went to Tiburon on Monday and the frames have all had their first few machining passes.  Still need to be drilled and polished, then off to be anodized.  The spools are next.  Hope that you like it!

Here are the photos, with a Tiburon P16 Penn 146 Squidder Jr. frame for comparison.

Randy

[Maxed Out]

WOW       

[Vintage Offshore Tackle]

Thank you Ted, that is exactly what I said when I saw them!

[xjchad]

 
AMAZING!!!!

[STRIPER LOU]

Now that's the BIG DOG!!!!

Looks great Randy. There's gonna be a bunch of happy people. It would probably take 20 squidder frames to make that 20/0.

Nice work!

................Lou

[JRD]

My squidders will now have an inferiority  complex!!!!  Then again so will the jiggys 4/0s and 6/0s next to that monster.  I don't even fish above a 4/0 single speed size and I want one!  Nice work Randy!

[1badf350]

Oh baby!!!!! Nice!
How will the finish/color look in the end compared to that?

[Benni3]

Love it,,,,built like a tank!!!!

[54bullseye]

Chris I am guessing if you got silver that is the finish color !!  I like it !! Looks perfect to me !!!! Looking forward to the finished product. 
Thanks Randy !!!!     John Taylor

[Vintage Offshore Tackle]

Oh baby!!!!! Nice!
How will the finish/color look in the end compared to that?

Thank you Chris.  Regarding the finish, as some of these reels are going to be hard at work for land-based shark fishermen, it will be necessary to anodize them.  I have asked that the appearance of the finished silver product be as close to the raw polished aluminum as possible, but the anodized surface must be sufficiently thick to protect the aluminum, and the anodizing material is not perfectly clear, so I would guess that the anodized frames will not look exactly the same as the raw aluminum. 

If you are not going to expose your kit to the elements, I can probably have Tiburon make an unanodized kit.  If you, or anyone else wants their kit to be raw polished aluminum (unanodized), please let me know ASAP.

Thanks again,

Randy

[Vintage Offshore Tackle]

Thank you Chad, Lou, Randy, Mike and John!

[mo65]

                                                                  

[mikeysm]

The frames look out of this world Randy. My side plates are ready to install. I have the rod blank and the guides are coming from italy. The rest is in the mail on its way here. If im going to do this build I might as well go all out.

Mike

[Vintage Offshore Tackle]

Thank you Mo and Mike!

[1badf350]

Randy check your email buddy