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90* views of the marbling (decal, too) and trim bands on Peggy's rod ahead of the foregrip. Still have the split grip area to do and the guides and wraps.

Top view of Peggy's new rod. The Daiwa Samurai reel will match the blue and silver theme she chose very nicely. The waterslide decal was made on my Alps printer.

I'm building a walleye trolling rod for my wife, Peggy, to go with the jigging rod that Doc, Mark Blabaum, Rich Gassman, and Stan Grace helped me to build for her last year. This handle features Stan's beautiful Rocky Mountain Juniper and Rich Gassman's wonderful handle work. I just glued all of the components together. Reel to match the color scheme.

Collage showing more of the rod. Decals made with my Alps printer.

Finished this one up this week; should be on the water this weekend with a man who's fishing boat is even painted camo.

I tried a new thread recently received to tie in with the marbling.

Doc received the reel now, so it's safe to post this pic with the decals on it. It matches the rod that Mark and I built for him earlier this spring.

This was what was staring at me this morning. I was hoping it'd throw itself back together during the night...

Another view; all told I probably have 12 hours into doing this.

Hadn't done one of these for quite a while. I'd taken it apart months ago and just finished it today. All Jacquard's Pearl Ex powdered pigments.

I did marble under the 4 double foot guides. I used a Madeira red metallic thread on the guide wraps. It has a sporadic bit of blue and black along with the red. Wonder if the dog biter will attack this one, too?

Latest one I'm working on; marbled another reel seat for a friend. Building on a Lamiglas LSJ 861 blank.

I used the ink pens (again) as a guinea pig and then marbled this reel seat for a fella in Washington. There's a permanent marker through the reel seat to enable it to rotate on my drier. These pics were taken while rotating.

Playing with a new pigment; kinda turned wild, but it's for someone who likes the really bright colors.

A 6' walleye jigging rod for a freshman angler.

Walleye jigging rod; tried a bit longer handle to help balance it for a gal.

This one's on it's way to Ray Adams in Sacramento to be completed by him before heading to the auction in Washington soon.

Mark Blabaum and I made a gift rod for Doc. He opened it up tonight, so it's safe to post some pics of it finally.

Mark Blabaum and I got together and built a gift rod for Doc this winter. Doc received the rod today, so finally safe to post pics.

Another 3 color Moire (Tiger)wrap that I finished this weekend. I hope to git'r'dun this week sometime. I made the waterslide decals on my Alps printer again for this one.

I'll post more later of these last two rods, but these are the split grip areas of the 3 Christmas gifts I've been working on for 3 children.

I used all metallic threads for my second Moire. Under were Sulky black, Gudebrod red and silver. On top, I used two Gudebrod A nylon threads with a Sulky black metallic. The nylons were sacrificial and only the Sulky remained when done. Thanks to Scott Throop for passing on his years' long signature wrap to everyone in the rodbuilding community!

One of three for siblings that I'm doing for Christmas.

I used some Pearl Ex powders for this one other than the black; that was some TAP Plastic's pigment. Have the decals on it now and it's drying on the rotator.

A mixture of marbling and a cross wrap (and it's a mixture of braids and threads). I hadn't put trim bands around marbling in quite a while so thought that I'd try that to match the guide wraps and the cross wrap's tie-off wraps.