"Chotchkies" bionic blade (a la Office Space)

[thedude]

since i'm waiting for parts to come in for a few other rods, I decided to give one of my old BPS bionic blades a little "flare":


split the grip and added some marbilizing... needs a nite on the dryer and another clear coat and she's good to go.

[skeeterman190]

 hey there buddy u looking for a spooning rod there? nice custom job though. -skeeterman-

[Waterfoul]

I think it needs more flare... I mean really... do you think the minimum amount of flare is good enough?  I could probably use a total of 10 pieces of flare minimum.

[bigjc]

Looks like someone has a bad case of spring fever.....

[thedude]

Looks like someone has a bad case of spring fever.....

you ain't kiddin... i got a 2 allstar blanks and a nice rainshadow blank on ebay to build for myself and i'm doing a rod for a buddy as well... cork came today so thats all glued up, just waiting on guides and reel seats... screw ice fishing! lol.

[skeeterman190]

 Hey dude whats goin on have any smallmouth bass ales lately? So this whole making your rod deal is it hard?? and where do you get all the stuff? wanna talk about some cabin fever, im a union brickie and im laid off right now, only so many things to look at on here and well ice fishing is kinda just an excuse to get drunk and we cant do that all the time either. so hit me back with some info id like to give er a shot-skeeterman-

[thedude]

no smallmouth bass ale lately... just got back from some friends and stuck with newcastles and crown royal 

the whole rod building thing isn't too hard if you keep it simple. i spent a lot of time reading on rodbuilding.org and www.mudhole.com has some good videos on the basics. I bought a cheap wrapper and drying motor and was pretty much set for the basics. Made a couple ice rods for practice and then did a 7' spinning rod for tube fishin. You can really make a nice rod for 50-70 bucks if you do it yourself. I bought 2 original allstar blanks and an batson xcel 7'6" blank on ebay all together for 65$ shipped... the batson alone is a 95$ blank and to have it built would probably be a 180$ rod.... i'll spend about 40$ on it total when its all said and done.

here's my tube rod:

[bigjc]

When can I place an order?

[thedude]

just putting the finishing touches on a spinning rod for a buddy John... then i got 3 in various stages i'm doing for me. After that.. i'm taking orders.

here's the spinning rod:


(crappy pic, but thats a .44 mag casing)