well, my little princess of 6yo had some time seeing how his daddy was rebuilding some rods for his friends and customers and everytime she asked me when I would make a rod for her with pink thread, of course that work was posponed until few day ago that I search on my rods which one could work for her.
I saw on my rods a short 6' rod 15-25lb with no-name or brand visible anywhere, its made of solid glass, it had some light corroded SS wire light rings on it but the rest of the rod was in really good shape, I was actually able to dead lift 12# with the rod, it was all bent on a "U" form actually the tip was all the way down to the reel seat level but no sight of fatigue so, Im pretty sure it could dead lift 15# too, imagine it just like the ugly stick unbreakable rods.
so, it would be perfect for her to higth sticking a fish or dead lift the fishes she will catch.
originally the rod had just 4 guides but when I made a static test on it for my liking it needed at least 2 more for being too parabolic, I ordered some TV pacbay minima chrome guides and rewrapped the rod with colors of a princess casttle, gold, yellow and pink, my kid told me where to put the pink thread, so it was made under her desires and supervision.
I think it came up really well, its almost unbreakable for local shore fishing and most important my daughter is happy with his personalized rod that her daddy made for her, hint, her nickname within the family is Hope
this is how it was before, not bad but was a boring plain black wrap
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sorry I couldnt found a better picture of the tip
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and this is how it looks with the new wrap job
John (thorhammer) I stolen your idea of the bulb ramp with epoxic at the end of the foregrip
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Im using this oversized rubber cap to act as cushion while fighting a fish
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on the direct sun light or with the camera flash the colors of the lettering and the thread really comes alive
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now shes looking forward to go fishing with his daddy to the local plier and catch a big triggerfish with the princess rod,
I have a shimano sonora 4000 grey color for her to be used with this rod but in the search of a similar sized reel in Pink or purple.
Looks great, nice rod for the little princess.
Joe
Very nice, I'm sure your daughter will love it
Very nice improvements.
Nice.
My daughter just got my 9 year old granddaughter a pink camo 243.
Thanks guys, hopefully I will have a pic of my daughter with a nice catch
What a great daddy! With a fine pink rod like that, your little lady angler should be all set to start catching some big'uns. :D
~A~
Quote from: Aiala on January 27, 2017, 03:31:00 PM
What a great daddy! With a fine pink rod like that, your little lady angler should be all set to start catching some big'uns. :D
~A~
thanks Amiga, really appreciate your comments.
I could've just bought her an okuma or shakespeare all pink rod, but I think this one I made for her have more sentimental value since she choose the colors and others details just as she like them.
maybe in a short future I will make her another rod from the scratch
Awesome work! Nice, simple and clean, and the bright colors really make it come alive. Looking forward to seeing what she catches with it. I like the way you jazzed up the reel seat and butt. I might have to steal that one!
Mike
Quote from: Fishy247 on January 27, 2017, 11:07:35 PM
Awesome work! Nice, simple and clean, and the bright colors really make it come alive. Looking forward to seeing what she catches with it. I like the way you jazzed up the reel seat and butt. I might have to steal that one!
Mike
thanks Mike, you are free to take any idea you like it, actually those were ideas from my daugther, she wanted more pink on the handle but I convince her to just made some bright pink/gold accents over the black foam
buen trabajo compadre ;).
gracias amigo Salvador
Looks like the wind is howling. Don't plan on taking her out tomorrow!
Quote from: MarkT on January 28, 2017, 03:38:40 AM
Looks like the wind is howling. Don't plan on taking her out tomorrow!
Thanks Mark,
she actually wanted to go tomorrow to try it but the wind will be 18-23mph with guts 2x stronger for the next 2 days, so, no go for this weekend
That's a special rod for special little lady...good job and hope she has many tight lines with that rod....Bill
remember this rod amigos?
well it wasnt finished, it was missing the final touch which it was some stickers choosen by my daughter, some hearts, glitter dust of many colors.
I think the final touch came out really cool, specially when My kid did half of the job, she put all the stickers where she wanted and helped to pour the glitter dust on the blank while it was turning on the drier.
I actually just put the base epoxy for the glitter dust and next day put the coat of epoxy over the glitter to made the encapsulated effect on the glitter, it really came alive on the sun.
she just loved the rod.. even more :)
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sorry for so many pictures but I wanted you to check all the details that my little 7yo girl added to her rod, on the shade the glitter is barely visible, all you see the the a black rod with the pink and yellow wrap, glitter and heart stickers have a epoxy coat over, the surface of the blank is smooth as glass, it has a really cool effect, better than what I was expecting, of course picture dont give any justice to the real life shiny sparky glitter.
Pretty cool Daddy! "Hope springs eternal!"
My wife speaks "chinglish". That's what she calls it anyway. I imitate her as best I can, cause I love tryin to talk a diffrent dialect. However like you, she mixes up the gender "he/she" thing, so I get confused sometimes: "wait you were just talking 'bout our daughter Grace, not Daniel our son?"...appearently in Mandrin they don't specify the gender thing. Cutest adult person I've ever known. Sometimes makes me laugh uncontrollably(until she gets to mad at me). There's a couple of "he's" insteada "she's", in your 1st post that threw me off at first.
Gfish
Muy linda hermano!! That turned out fantastic! Gives me some ideas for a rod I'm going to do for a buddy of mine....
Keep it up!
Mike
One word , D Lux
My daughter is 6 also ... nice job getting yours excited about fishing!!! :)
Quote from: fishgrain on July 18, 2017, 07:38:45 PM
One word , D Lux
My daughter is 6 also ... nice job getting yours excited about fishing!!! :)
yep, shes really proud on her fishing rod, she never stops telling everybody how she did "half" of the work on the rod, she already caught her first fish on it few months ago (pic attached), that was 1 week after the rod was recently rewraped, now shes waiting to use it again with all the sparkling stickers and glitter.
we might have to wait a month at least, too hot to go fishing from the shore
Way cute! Gonna miss a daughter in that age group, until one of my kids gives me a grandaughter...
Gfish
:) I think that rod is beautiful , I my self would fish that rod .. Love when kids get involved , giving there ideas - opinions .
Surly a rod to be proud of and enjoy ... Good job daddy..... joe
You're a good dad, Alex.
well the indestructible Princess rod got Revamped, the blank lasted more than the stock metal reelseat, few months ago the hood of the reelseat started to sping along with the nut, so it was time to install a most modern and better quality reelseat, I choose a graphite ALPS reelseat, it feels pretty solid and also pretty light.
but since I had to take the rear grip out to install the new reeelseat from the butt (in order to avoid uninstalling all the guides), I went also with a split grip rear grip style and well, I went the whole mile and rebuilded the foregrip and made a long wrap before the 1st guide to put some Decals that my now 13yo princess wanted to have on her fishing rod, they are from her favorite Nintendo Game "Zelda".
along with the new revamped rod pictured I will throw some "Before" pictures of the reargrip + reelseat + foregrip + cosmetic wrap to compare
from the 1st guide to the tip is the same original wrap job I made along with my daughter back in 2017
Nice clean look on a partial rebuild . Did the rod go tip heavy or did you add weight to the butt plug , to balance it out .
Nice work, compadre. Not too hard to get guides looking tight after a few tries, but getting all those transitions in a rod like that from grip to shrink to wrap to seat and again looking tight can take a bit of work, especially if building ramps vs. stock catalog trim rings. Very tight work.
Nice.
Quote from: oldmanjoe on October 19, 2023, 02:14:48 AMNice clean look on a partial rebuild . Did the rod go tip heavy or did you add weight to the butt plug , to balance it out .
the rod itself is just hair tip heavy, the cord/shrink wrap and bit of epoxy for the rear grip ramps added a bit of weight, but with a small 4000 sized shimano reel the setup reach a almost perfect balance
Quote from: thorhammer on October 19, 2023, 12:27:52 PMNice work, compadre. Not too hard to get guides looking tight after a few tries, but getting all those transitions in a rod like that from grip to shrink to wrap to seat and again looking tight can take a bit of work, especially if building ramps vs. stock catalog trim rings. Very tight work.
thanks amigo for the kind words, yep it was a labor of love, I took my time on this rod, I liked it that much that I told my daughter that I might use it when going with my friends ^-^ , she didnt liked it the idea, tho. :-\
Cool! Maybe you found a new series to build: Custom Rods for Kids. Just like the sport-team rods you build for adults.