After posting the end of year Pink Lady and I immediately got an order so here it is. This one is a little lighter. The blank is a Seeker Hercules Athena GTS 70M 30-60. The reel seat is an Alps centra lock gun metal and guides are Alps 50 lb class.
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now this is a real pink rod ;D
really like your rod building techniques and style Dwight.
never overdone and always eyecatching, hopefully in few years I will be able to do something similar to your builds.
Nice work Dwight!
The mermaid decal is a nice touch, given the theme.
John
Beautiful as always! (Still can't handle that spiral wrap business, tho'... :P ) At any rate, I'm delighted to've started the Pink Lady craze... hope you keep getting orders! ;)
~A~
Thanks to all. Custom building for me anyway is a reflection of personality. My style is built for battle first and then I dress them but do not like a lot of real busy stuff so the wrap style is clean and simple. Decals are whatever the customer wants.
And John, I polled a few of the local lady anglers on the mermaid and they all liked it for the theme.
Dwight
Very nice rod, the trimar black and gold is a nice touch. Is the glass pink on those seeker blanks or is it painted pink? Seeker has been putting out some painted blanks now. I just finished my first painted seeker,will be interesting to see how it holds up. Sheridan
The Hercules Athena is a Hercules grey then painted silver and then pink on top of silver and in the sun light you get some silver sparkle from it.
Excellent work...that's a beauty! 8)
Quote from: Newell Nut on January 28, 2017, 08:03:15 PM
The Hercules Athena is a Hercules grey then painted silver and then pink on top of silver and in the sun light you get some silver sparkle from it.
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Thanks
That's to cool 8)