The blank is one of Cortney's Blue Halo Retro Flex 3 Seven Six four weight in the cappuccino colour which I wanted to build up long ago but missed kinda concept matching the coffee colour. Experimenting with inked cork grips and incoming Payne style reel seat hardware from Lemke gave me the ignition.
The 76-4 being a light and sensitive blank, I opted for a Ephemeroptera motive on the grip - the artwork was preserved with cork seal. In my opinion, this gives the rod an overall kind of vintage touch...with the payne seat, one wire bent hook keeper, darkened cork and dark red wraps in kimono silk.
I used a coffee banded perfect Europe agate stripping guide with blued NS frame matching Snake Brand universals in black nickel allover.
Although nothing fancy on the rod, all is concentrated on the inked grip as an eye catcher.
Thank you for looking!.. sorry for the large resolution pics... i will try to downsize them a bit...
tight lines
Marc
Posted: 24 Jan 2020, 15:22 • 