WylieRods

I built this for well under $100. It has a quick change chuck (2" PVC couplings cut in half with sheet rubber chucks) if I have to go to small diameter blanks. The roller are skateboard bearings with vinal tubing to protect the blanks. The top roller arm locks in place for easy loading and the springs self tention the top roller on the blank. It's no work of art but it works.

It was a good night last night as both my buddy Dan and I hooked up on about six foot long sturgeon each in fast moving water. Fish this size in fast moving water demand a spiral wrapped rod!

This is my close friend Dan with his sturgeon he caught last night. This fish bit like a small one then faught as hard as any fish I have ever seen. It stuck it self in the rocks for a little while and like a true master Danny waited the fish out and managed to land it after a good half an hour fight. These demand a spiral wrap!

I mentioned catching this fish on Rodbuilding.org a few months ago and have finally got my computer set up again so here it is fellas. The rod in the back background was the last one I built before I left California. It was built for a very dear friend of many years and he is very pleased with the rod.

Except for the tip I think it gets easier from here. I posted some pictures now of how his transtion from blue to holo guide wraps looks for you. Tight wraps, Wylie

This is a reel seat I set up for my buddy Jay.

Here's some of the pay lake rods I have been build in the precoat with one turning

These are some simple guide wraps I knocked out pretty quick. These are the pay lake special rods I've been building.

One more coat for this one, it gets cold in Minnesota ya know!

Pretty simple except for the black over the silver. Yikes!

This one should be good for about 52 hours usable light from two alkaline AAA batteries. Thank you Muhole for the parts that are probably being fished now in Idaho. Besides the grips and reel seat here. ;p Wylie

This is one of those pay lake rods I have been building but this one has a bunch of left over parts on it that I had from a rod I broke. She's my!

This is that rod that the coatings got all crazy with me when I was building. Yep that's A.M. on the clock, time for sleep!

The craziest thing happen to me today while I was costing a decorative wrap. I got the coating to close to the lamp I work by and the coating went into thermal overrun. The free radicals in the epoxy just went off and the fumes were flying and the cup is melting and the popsicle stick is lifting the pot and I'm looking at this going on with sticky fingers and grab the camera for a short but I can't see the fumes in the picture.