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

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Quote from: sabaman1 on May 24, 2024, 05:24:24 AMAs 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
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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.

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Donnyboat

Good work, really brought that rod back to life, it will fish good for another 50 years, thanks for posting it, cheers Don.
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oc1

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

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Quote from: oc1 on August 15, 2024, 05:51:08 AMNice 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
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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.
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steelfish

Quote from: JasonGotaProblem on August 15, 2024, 06:03:02 PMThe 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

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steelfish

fish bonker, fishing priest, fish whacker, etc

this is one of those examples where you just do what the customer want and pay for  ^-^

perfect size for the local spanish macks and king macks
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thorhammer

Nice work! Kon Tiki one of my favorite books as a kid. What a story.

boon

That seems way too nice to be beating the snot out of things with.

We call ours the "welcome aboard bat" and it is much less nice than that one  :al

steelfish

Quote from: boon on October 29, 2024, 03:54:51 AMThat seems way too nice to be beating the snot out of things with.

haha, thanks, this guy wanted to have it similar to his bamboo gaff

https://alantani.com/index.php/topic,35592.0.html

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