TWO more restorations jobs to La Bocana, Baja Sur, Do-Dorado fish style

Started by steelfish, October 26, 2026, 07:39:45 PM

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steelfish

this two rods go directly to La Bocana, Baja Sur, these are a Calstar and Graftech custom rods that were already very bad beat-up and they needed a full freshen up.

La Bocana, this is a fishing paradise in the pacific side in mid zone of Baja Sur, around 3hrs south of Cedros Island, the owner is a well known local Captain who saw one-two of my customizing jobs on a fishing rods on one of his customers and asked about the rodsmither, long story short he send me 5 fishing rods to restore, no special notes or requests, he told me just do whatever you want to do to my fishing rods Im sure I will like them, according to recent phone calls after delivering these fishing rods it seems that he liked them  A LOT !! I already delivered 3 fishing rods, still two more in the works.

Check these ones out amigos

the before pictures you can find them here https://alantani.com/index.php/topic,29395.msg487336.html#msg487336
The Baja Guy

thorhammer

Great work. Key detail some folks overlook is the transition ramp on the foregrip. All the pretty colored wraps don't matter if that transition looks crappy, especially on shrink where you can't just use a trim band. Well done.

steelfish

Quote from: thorhammer on October 26, 2026, 07:55:05 PMGreat work. Key detail some folks overlook is the transition ramp on the foregrip. All the pretty colored wraps don't matter if that transition looks crappy, especially on shrink where you can't just use a trim band. Well done.

I hear you JOhn, the prep work on that transition ramp takes a lot of my time on the rod sice every rod is different, those times the easy job is wrapping the guides
The Baja Guy