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mark blabaum Registered: June 2006 Location: Southwest - Wisconsin Posts: 1,321	The grip is made with stabilized dyed blue maple, trimmed with aluminum, corian and gift cards. The reel seat insert is a 7/8" acrylic pen blank.
	· Date: Sat November 28, 2009 · Views: 2,410 · Filesize: 38.0kb, 156.3kb · Dimensions: 2000 x 1332 ·
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Harold Dean

Registered: August 2008
Location: 100 Mile House B.C. Canada
Posts: 191

Sat November 28, 2009 10:26pm

Beautiful as always Mark. What do you mean corian and gift cards?

mark blabaum

Registered: June 2006
Location: Southwest - Wisconsin
Posts: 1,321

Sun November 29, 2009 7:43am

Harold, the black caps on the end of the blue is black corian. The white trim is a gift card (like a credit card) sandwiched between the wood, aluminum and corian.

Tony Hanson

Registered: October 2008
Location: Carver, MN
Posts: 144

Sun November 29, 2009 10:14pm

Fabulous work Mark. Great idea for using up spent gift cards.

Harold Dean

Registered: August 2008
Location: 100 Mile House B.C. Canada
Posts: 191

Mon November 30, 2009 12:10am

Thanks Mark. Good use of the expired cards.

Vladimir Lyashuk

Registered: August 2009
Location: Russia.Moscow
Posts: 121

Mon November 30, 2009 1:47am

Mark, as usually-fantastic work.