Doc Ski Labanowski

Well It is mostly done. I might add a couple techniques after I pop it cherry on Reds and Specks in Texas. The Handle is a Blabaum Special. I think he told me the spider web was made from my very own Budweiser Cans left over from the Conclave in 08.(it makes a good story anyway. Tiger in the split grip with Met Purple and Flo Chartreuse sent to me from the G man. Cross Wrap variation off the optical and the weave is the Badass Bass originally done as a grip from Billy V and the weave was done once by Ray A. I of course tweeked it with Owens P2W. Also a bit of an experiment. Someone asked me a couple months back about where he could get some E thread so he could weave with D and I said he might try two turns each movement with A. Surprise It works pretty darn good. Since A is lower profile it also tends to keep the weave quite tight and not so bulky. Opens the door for more experiments. Pictures arent my usual quality because I was rushing the job before heading down to Dads house again to work on fixing it up for a future move and to attend another Healing Waters get together. If you guys want I can re do them later. Oh enjoy the game. Dont guess many will see this today. Oh kept the guides simple to set off the other thread work. Oh forgot to give kudos to Scott Troop for the Tiger wrap technique and Bill Batson and Batson Enterprises for an awesome 822.5 blank that has become one of my favorite light rods for both baitcasting and spinning.

Well It is mostly done. I might add a couple techniques after I pop it cherry on Reds and Specks in Texas. The Handle is a Blabaum Special. I think he told me the spider web was made from my very own Budweiser Cans left over from the Conclave in 08.(it makes a good story anyway. Tiger in the split grip with Met Purple and Flo Chartreuse sent to me from the G man. Cross Wrap variation off the optical and the weave is the Badass Bass originally done as a grip from Billy V and the weave was done once by Ray A. I of course tweeked it with Owens P2W. Also a bit of an experiment. Someone asked me a couple months back about where he could get some E thread so he could weave with D and I said he might try two turns each movement with A. Surprise It works pretty darn good. Since A is lower profile it also tends to keep the weave quite tight and not so bulky. Opens the door for more experiments. Pictures arent my usual quality because I was rushing the job before heading down to Dads house again to work on fixing it up for a future move and to attend another Healing Waters get together. If you guys want I can re do them later. Oh enjoy the game. Dont guess many will see this today. Oh kept the guides simple to set off the other thread work. Oh forgot to give kudos to Scott Troop for the Tiger wrap technique and Bill Batson and Batson Enterprises for an awesome 822.5 blank that has become one of my favorite light rods for both baitcasting and spinning.

Well It is mostly done. I might add a couple techniques after I pop it cherry on Reds and Specks in Texas. The Handle is a Blabaum Special. I think he told me the spider web was made from my very own Budweiser Cans left over from the Conclave in 08.(it makes a good story anyway. Tiger in the split grip with Met Purple and Flo Chartreuse sent to me from the G man. Cross Wrap variation off the optical and the weave is the Badass Bass originally done as a grip from Billy V and the weave was done once by Ray A. I of course tweeked it with Owens P2W. Also a bit of an experiment. Someone asked me a couple months back about where he could get some E thread so he could weave with D and I said he might try two turns each movement with A. Surprise It works pretty darn good. Since A is lower profile it also tends to keep the weave quite tight and not so bulky. Opens the door for more experiments. Pictures arent my usual quality because I was rushing the job before heading down to Dads house again to work on fixing it up for a future move and to attend another Healing Waters get together. If you guys want I can re do them later. Oh enjoy the game. Dont guess many will see this today. Oh kept the guides simple to set off the other thread work. Oh forgot to give kudos to Scott Troop for the Tiger wrap technique and Bill Batson and Batson Enterprises for an awesome 822.5 blank that has become one of my favorite light rods for both baitcasting and spinning.

Well It is mostly done. I might add a couple techniques after I pop it cherry on Reds and Specks in Texas. The Handle is a Blabaum Special. I think he told me the spider web was made from my very own Budweiser Cans left over from the Conclave in 08.(it makes a good story anyway. Tiger in the split grip with Met Purple and Flo Chartreuse sent to me from the G man. Cross Wrap variation off the optical and the weave is the Badass Bass originally done as a grip from Billy V and the weave was done once by Ray A. I of course tweeked it with Owens P2W. Also a bit of an experiment. Someone asked me a couple months back about where he could get some E thread so he could weave with D and I said he might try two turns each movement with A. Surprise It works pretty darn good. Since A is lower profile it also tends to keep the weave quite tight and not so bulky. Opens the door for more experiments. Pictures arent my usual quality because I was rushing the job before heading down to Dads house again to work on fixing it up for a future move and to attend another Healing Waters get together. If you guys want I can re do them later. Oh enjoy the game. Dont guess many will see this today. Oh kept the guides simple to set off the other thread work. Oh forgot to give kudos to Scott Troop for the Tiger wrap technique and Bill Batson and Batson Enterprises for an awesome 822.5 blank that has become one of my favorite light rods for both baitcasting and spinning.

Well It is mostly done. I might add a couple techniques after I pop it cherry on Reds and Specks in Texas. The Handle is a Blabaum Special. I think he told me the spider web was made from my very own Budweiser Cans left over from the Conclave in 08.(it makes a good story anyway. Tiger in the split grip with Met Purple and Flo Chartreuse sent to me from the G man. Cross Wrap variation off the optical and the weave is the Badass Bass originally done as a grip from Billy V and the weave was done once by Ray A. I of course tweeked it with Owens P2W. Also a bit of an experiment. Someone asked me a couple months back about where he could get some E thread so he could weave with D and I said he might try two turns each movement with A. Surprise It works pretty darn good. Since A is lower profile it also tends to keep the weave quite tight and not so bulky. Opens the door for more experiments. Pictures arent my usual quality because I was rushing the job before heading down to Dads house again to work on fixing it up for a future move and to attend another Healing Waters get together. If you guys want I can re do them later. Oh enjoy the game. Dont guess many will see this today. Oh kept the guides simple to set off the other thread work. Oh forgot to give kudos to Scott Troop for the Tiger wrap technique and Bill Batson and Batson Enterprises for an awesome 822.5 blank that has become one of my favorite light rods for both baitcasting and spinning.

Well It is mostly done. I might add a couple techniques after I pop it cherry on Reds and Specks in Texas. The Handle is a Blabaum Special. I think he told me the spider web was made from my very own Budweiser Cans left over from the Conclave in 08.(it makes a good story anyway. Tiger in the split grip with Met Purple and Flo Chartreuse sent to me from the G man. Cross Wrap variation off the optical and the weave is the Badass Bass originally done as a grip from Billy V and the weave was done once by Ray A. I of course tweeked it with Owens P2W. Also a bit of an experiment. Someone asked me a couple months back about where he could get some E thread so he could weave with D and I said he might try two turns each movement with A. Surprise It works pretty darn good. Since A is lower profile it also tends to keep the weave quite tight and not so bulky. Opens the door for more experiments. Pictures arent my usual quality because I was rushing the job before heading down to Dads house again to work on fixing it up for a future move and to attend another Healing Waters get together. If you guys want I can re do them later. Oh enjoy the game. Dont guess many will see this today. Oh kept the guides simple to set off the other thread work. Oh forgot to give kudos to Scott Troop for the Tiger wrap technique and Bill Batson and Batson Enterprises for an awesome 822.5 blank that has become one of my favorite light rods for both baitcasting and spinning.

Optical with weird result. Did it with Pearl over red white and blue wraps resulting in an almost abalone look

simple fade and JTOB

Simple Fade

Really looks great in the sun

tiger as the underwrap

Lately I have been feeling pretty good about my work so as normally happens I needed something to put me back in my place. I changed the skeleton Doraldo weave to use more natural colors with a different backround that I though might be interesting. Well I am disappointed big time for lots of reasons. One(and one I expect will get worse) rod work is now taking much longer than ever before. One of the byproducts of the Golden Years Bull I reccon. Then The actual weave has two problems. 1. More gaps than the teeth of my first date in high school. Likely magnified by the fact I used some old Satin Tone thread from Holland and it is much firmer than my normal Gudebrod and Bullard black. I imagine the A thread of the weave just wouldnt compress the Holland. What ever the reason it just came out crappy. 2. Because I used a light backround I lost the white bones. Oh they are there alright but they blend right in to the backround. Plus I used plain nylon white and though I used CP it just doesnt stand out. Of course being almost like a politician I can spin this into - this new process gives an almost mystic impression of an old favorite Dorado weave(bull). I am not cutting it off because everything around it is bitchen(there is a phrase that will date me) and I need the weave to keep my ego in check. The JTOBs are cool and subtle and the tiger just gives me a tone of ideas(again?). It is an underwrap of 3 red threads(all the same) and one black. Then the over wrap was the same with 3 sacrificials leaving the one black. Looks cool in the distance and cool up very close. Anyway here are the pics and I did a couple exposier set ups on the tiger neither make me very happy.

One of my Favorite weaves.

This is the #1 guide. Where I tend to put more thread work in.

Red, Black, Red and Blue under with same over sacrifice all but blue