Page 2 of 2

Re: Latest creation

Posted: Mon Mar 25, 2019 1:50 pm
by lape0019
By no means am I trying to insult your work. I actually really like the one that has the Morethan ( I assume. the one with pinkish line) mounted on it. And by the way, excellent choices of reels.

Just stating as an outsider looking in, I don't know if I could trust that reel seat. If it had some sort of hidden screw lock on it, I would probably trust it more but as you have pointed out, they can fail too.

Regardless, you're building very nice rods with what looks to be all high end components so they do impress me.

Re: Latest creation

Posted: Mon Mar 25, 2019 2:54 pm
by ShawnD
kingofbeasts wrote:And another one is ready for the fall season :)
IMG_5142-2.jpg
IMG_5187-2.jpg
IMG_5168.jpg

Very nice details, I fix guides but I haven't built anything from scratch yet. I like the finish :handgestures-thumbupright:

Re: Latest creation

Posted: Mon Mar 25, 2019 5:17 pm
by kingofbeasts
lape0019 wrote:By no means am I trying to insult your work. I actually really like the one that has the Morethan ( I assume. the one with pinkish line) mounted on it. And by the way, excellent choices of reels.

Just stating as an outsider looking in, I don't know if I could trust that reel seat. If it had some sort of hidden screw lock on it, I would probably trust it more but as you have pointed out, they can fail too.

Regardless, you're building very nice rods with what looks to be all high end components so they do impress me.
No worries ;) I know that this wasn’t your intention, so no offense taken :) I know my concept takes some “getting used to “ since I answer pretty much same questions every year on various discussion boards or on social media. I even made a tutorial about how I do it 5 years ago , but I’ve made some changes and improvements since ( some due to the fact that new materials and tools became available to me). However one of the “ primitive” version of the Constrictor reel seat was this one: [youtube]https://youtu.be/vh-nGXo10ug[/youtube]

That, in the video, is actually the one that holds the Stella FI nowadays on my Sage CT 290
F6DC1481-E1A4-4515-B958-A2AEB491E3E1.png
F6DC1481-E1A4-4515-B958-A2AEB491E3E1.png (4.63 MiB) Viewed 4995 times
Morethan is on the big brother , a Sage CT 490
7F80FF50-B188-4C18-A1F6-48D6995AD961.png
7F80FF50-B188-4C18-A1F6-48D6995AD961.png (4.47 MiB) Viewed 4995 times
The black reel with pink line is actually a Shimano C3000 MG custom painted ad my request :)
Thank you once again for the compliment, maybe we will meet on the river banks sometime and you will have the chance to see one of them ;)

Re: Latest creation

Posted: Mon Mar 25, 2019 5:21 pm
by kingofbeasts
ShawnD wrote:
kingofbeasts wrote:And another one is ready for the fall season :)
IMG_5142-2.jpg
IMG_5187-2.jpg
IMG_5168.jpg

Very nice details, I fix guides but I haven't built anything from scratch yet. I like the finish :handgestures-thumbupright:
Thank you! I started pretty much the same way, doing repairs and modifying old rods. It is all about the passion, if you like doing it rod building is not so hard to do but it takes patience and time :)

Re: Latest creation

Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2019 11:09 am
by lape0019
Now those Sage builds (especially with the Morthan), look very clean!

Re: Latest creation

Posted: Tue May 21, 2019 3:13 pm
by kingofbeasts
B845D425-068E-40CE-A935-F673B8CE19F5.jpeg
B845D425-068E-40CE-A935-F673B8CE19F5.jpeg (3.08 MiB) Viewed 4661 times
33A438F7-6BDC-44FD-A7D9-553532794EFC.jpeg
33A438F7-6BDC-44FD-A7D9-553532794EFC.jpeg (4.41 MiB) Viewed 4661 times
0B06D5FF-C657-461F-AD10-6FC5B762EF4A.jpeg
0B06D5FF-C657-461F-AD10-6FC5B762EF4A.jpeg (1.98 MiB) Viewed 4661 times
Just finished “Rusty” :)