Jim Kastorff

Since my youngest son has the same initials as I, I've attempted to personalize his rods with different things as they all have his "phoenix" weave, stole the pattern from a Maxima decal, pattern is 60 threads wide done in HT A metallic with Black A nylon

42 thread pattern of the very rare Golden Acid Tuna sometimes caught off the coast of San Diego by anglers using acid rods. Thanks to Jim Lee for inspiration, pattern done in Ht A gold metallic with A black nylon for the turning thread.

Weave I put on my sons rods as he has the same phoenix tatooed on his back from college frat days! Black A nylon turning thread, HT A metallic for weave threads.

roosterfish weave shown up close almost done, bit a packing left to do, then some trim bands, a bit of finish, some guides and its ready to fish.

roosterfish weave almost done showing loom

60 thread pattern using A black nylon with Gold Electra HT A metallic weaving thread

30 thread weave in HT A electra metallic thread

Just did this weave of Doc's bft in A electra metallic thread on a buddy's rod, just one of dozens and dozens of great weave patterns Doc has for sale. The electra thread really looks nice in a weave, pic doesn't do it justice.

79 A metallic thread weave done with tape before I had my looms. Most difficult weave I've done, many steps had over 12 thread changes, its a 48'friends boat I used to fish on. Took 9 straight hours to finish, ended up with a nice headach, bad photo, digital of orig photo, first presentation gaff I made had this weave with boat owners name on either side of boat weave.

My son and I at Gudalupe Island off Mexico last summer with some 35# yellow tail caught using giant squid for bait, his was bigger than mine!

gold thread weave done in A metallic of company logo

Latest gaff built for a buddy with his companys logo woven in gold thread

5 inch turks head knot done in place of a reel seat, real pain in the butt to do

For those of you that got these fonts with one of my weave looms, I added another thread to the bottom font to avoid single threads

Walking stick made out of an old wooden headed golf driver. Many layers of thread to thicken the shaft for easier chevron construction.

Getting hard to find the old wooden drivers to make these out of anymore, wouldn't work with a Big Bertha!

Tip is made by grinding down the wooden golf club head and recessing it somewhat so the rubber tip is sortof flush with the wood.

Filled the shaft with epoxy so in case my buddy gets attacked by old women or nasty dogs on his evening walks, it won't break!!!

This is a xmas present for my fishing buddy Joey J. hence the intials woven in A metallic thread

60 thread HT gold A metallic weave over butt wrap-even put a tail on the fish for the kraut guy!

I customized 4 rods that I sold to a friend of mine by adding his initials in a A gold metallic weave-pattern is 27 threads wide

Since I saw a post of a decorated surf spike I felt obligated to post a pic of a fancy Pringle can decorated with a bit of thread. You must have a top secret clearance to know why I did it.

I've wanted to do a weave with colored layers like this for some time and this project lent itself perfectly I think. New long range boat out of San Diego called the Independence. 35 thread weave in A metallics

60 thread weave loom setup to start a 60 thread weave in gold HT A metallic. Loom uses dense foam to hold the threads verse masking tape

60 thread weave half done