Alex Customs rods, What's coming off the Lathe !

[steelfish]

As always beautiful work Alex! It looks to be an older Sabre rod. On your repaint application do you use a rattle can to apply or air brush?

rattle can spray paint, normally I use white primer first and then the final color it depends on each rod

[steelfish]

nothing big this time, just a restoring job to an Okuma shadow stalker rod that was badly scratched (nothing deep) and missing some guides, the job was to paint the blank, new clear coat, new guides and the name of the owner on the split rear grip zone.

[Donnyboat]

Good work, really brought that rod back to life, it will fish good for another 50 years, thanks for posting it, cheers Don.

[oc1]

Nice one Alex.  I wish my parents had named me Vacquero.

[steelfish]

Nice one Alex.  I wish my parents had named me Vacquero.

haha, well actually its just the nick-name of the guy, it means "cowboy" in spanish

[JasonGotaProblem]

The pic of the tip made me realize that I'm being lazy with my tip wrap on a rod I'm currently working on. I didn't do what you did. But it made me do something better than what I previously had done. So thank you.

[steelfish]

The pic of the tip made me realize that I'm being lazy with my tip wrap on a rod I'm currently working on. I didn't do what you did. But it made me do something better than what I previously had done. So thank you.

I always have hard time thinking on how wrapping the tip tops      sometimes I even had "blackouts" like not knowing how to finish to write the end of a novel   

In my custom rods the wrap on the tiptop needs to follow the wrap job used on the running guides but with a different touch, like the next ones just as an example