Ron,

It's a cool looking rod. But I see three pieces! Is it a three piece rod? or a two tipped rod?

That Young reel looks just right.

Tom

it's a staggered ferrule rod. The tip is almost 5' long.
It has a ferrule protector (a piece of glass blank) for the butt section, making the two pieces the same length in the sock.

Yes, this is my reel of choice for the rod, but it also does well with my Young Jubilee click-pawl and Young Neauvex disc drag. (The Sea Venture is too heavy for it.)
Other reels that are good on it are my Young 1505 multiplier, and MG-11 (dual click-pawl) multiplier.

I love the grip - it almost duplicates the mod-wells that Dennis Stone made for me

Being a parabolic rod, it will take me a while to find its groove.
I tried lawn-casting a WF7 and it seemed underlined - I thought it would have to be a WF8 or even 9.
I fished it a bit this weekend with a T130 and DT6.
It was fabulous with the DT6 - it did everything perfectly.

I need to work on casting with the T130, because I really want to use this for white bass in a few weeks. (fishing for them is all about distance casting)

I also think it will be incredible in the salt. The big seatrout I was catching last fall would be such a blast on this rod, as would redfish.

I haven't used it for anything yet - ha.
Maybe you can tell me what I should be trying.

The butt is removeable and there's a plug, but this really is a big fish rod, and I don't see a reason for it not to be in all the time.

btw, here is a link to the rods on Kiro
Izch graphite and glass

from the transliteration, I think I can derive that the staggered ferrule design is to give the rod more of one-piece feel.

Ron,

Awesome rod-super nice!

Regards,
Vlad

I think I figured out the prices. Looks like about $300
Now, how do I get one here. Crescent shop?

the blank prices look pretty good.

slow down, guys. It was closer to $450.
Shipping was $70 - as I said, Masamichi had to build a rectangular box big enough so that corner to corner, the 60-inch rod would fit under 55". I'm not even sure he would take it on again - but he might. He sure understands the challenge at this point. JY37,150 plus JY7,100 packing and shipping.
It was also about a 7-wk process - the blank was made from scratch.
Masamichi was very good about keeping me updated - I think he was worried about my good faith letting a paypal payment of that size expire past the redemption date.
If I could have done one thing, it would be to ask for a hook keeper - of course the reel has a nice tippet grabber on the counterweight.

I'm also not sure if the butt would work for a switch cast - it's just a pop-in butt, it's not built around the blank.

oh and, note, this high shipping cost wouldn't be a problem with one of the shorter rods, just with the two longer, X-grade rods (and blanks).

here's the Navy Bass model list
Izch PB glass at Navy Bass

I've been a bit surspised the number of two pc. rods far out number the multi piece rods being offered in Japan. They musn't fly as much ...

close, 3-3/4"
it's very light, though.
weighs almost exactly the same as this 3-1/2" Jubilee click-pawl reel, and has a sort of combined click-pawl and disc drag that works nice and sounds even nicer:


It's much lighter than my 3-1/2" Sea Venture disc drag, and and even noticeably lighter than my Neauvex composite disc drag reel.

here's that Revolution drag: With the disc drag turned off, the click-pawl is the entire check, and with the disc drag dialed in, it still has that sound.