This was supposed to be a winter build but you know, something about best-laid plans… It’s now a summer build and still in progress. Pretty happy with the ferrule wraps, Fuji Ultra dark brown with Prowrap Calcutta metallic accents. This is my first build and I’m having a ball! Can definitely see how this could become an addiction!

Looks great . And yes building is very addictive.

Outstanding! Your thread work is beautiful and the colors play very nicely with the blank.

Nice and clean, colors look good together. Great work!

Great build on Matt’s quality components. Look forward to seeing the finished rod.

Great work, I'd say, first attempt or any. You nailed it.

Nice work!

Great work all around! You and I were on a similar schedule for our first rod builds. I posted my finished Trout Smiths rod in the rod building forum a few days ago.

Like you, I was intimidated by the epoxy finish work, but it was easier than I expected when I actually got started. I used regular Threadmaster instead of the lite version, and I found that the key was to use as little epoxy as possible - just enough to cover the wraps.

I like the gold lettering on the green blank. Excellent. Nice build.

I've only cast the rod in the yard and it handles a standard 3wt wf (SA Mastery Trout) line beautifully. I think it would throw a 2wt just as well if you were looking for a slightly faster action but I'm liking it as a 3wt. It's been a lot of fun in the yard, looking forward to getting it on the water.

I believe this is the stripping guide:

https://www.proofflyfishing.com/collect ... -16mm-20mm

Big heavy
Great build . Love the wraps on the olive blank
We’ll done

Was just browsing through the rod photos section & saw this, & wanted to comment that I really like the color scheme.