eric riggs
Registered: March 2005
Location: NYC,N.Y
Posts: 147
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Mon August 29, 2005 11:34pm
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me likes this alots!
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BIlly Vivona
Registered: March 2005
Location: Staten Island, New York
Posts: 2,910
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Mon August 29, 2005 11:52pm
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Looks like a Pool cue.Very nice job. My wife walked in as I was looking at the pic. Tells me ohh, I like that. Can you do one like it? Taht looks better than yors, why don't you make them like that. Thanks dear.
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James Labanowski
Registered: March 2005
Location: Oxnard, California
Posts: 2,061
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Tue August 30, 2005 9:31am
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Very nice work Don. Your finish work looks very clear and smoothe. Not easy with long wraps.
Billy you should know by now women are always hard to please.
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BIlly Vivona
Registered: March 2005
Location: Staten Island, New York
Posts: 2,910
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Tue August 30, 2005 9:35am
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Doc - at least she spoke to me last night, lol. Don, what blank did you put this on? Teh matching underwrap is what makes it so classy looking.
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Don Putvin
Registered: April 2005
Location: Shelton WA
Posts: 55
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Wed August 31, 2005 7:37am
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Thanks for the kind words,
Billy, we are now even, as I have received the same comments on my end about your work  "Why don't you make them like he does?"
Doc, thanks, the finish looks pretty good even after a fly attempted a self inlay. I am finding more micro bubbles lately, I do need to watch so see where I am generating them in the future.
This is on a G. Lommis CB843 in a GL3, it is really a sweet rod, of course I am biased
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BIlly Vivona
Registered: March 2005
Location: Staten Island, New York
Posts: 2,910
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Wed August 31, 2005 9:26am
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Micro bubbles - which epoxy are you using? Which CP? I do not have any bubbles in my finish at all, but I do get crystals from teh excess dried CP - shows up a lot more on darker threads. Possible that this is the source of your "bubbles"
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Don Putvin
Registered: April 2005
Location: Shelton WA
Posts: 55
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Thu September 1, 2005 8:11am
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Billy,
Flexcoat High Build, and 811, I am fairly sure it is bubbles, and I think it may be to much "brushing action". All my finish jobs are done in two coats, long strokes along the butt wrap to even things out a bit. NO sanding.
I think I just need to slow things down a bit as this is a recent development.
I do have a couple snakeskins now though. 6 to 8 hours for a wrap, apply finish, throw in dryer, run overnight, get up and look, shake head, drink a cup of coffee, look again, shake head and pull out the razor.
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BIlly Vivona
Registered: March 2005
Location: Staten Island, New York
Posts: 2,910
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Thu September 1, 2005 11:01am
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Do you apply heat to teh Flex coat after you apply it to the rod? I brush it on vigorously, I mix vigourously - tehre's bubbles everywhere. Once I pass teh Prorpane torch under it a few times, they all disappear. I'd hate to see what my epoxy would look like if someone didn't invent the torch. lol.
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Domenic Federico
Registered: April 2005
Location: NE Ohio
Posts: 169
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Fri September 2, 2005 12:42pm
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Billy- It would be aweful kind of you to post the torch procedure you're using in a step by step process for the rest of us "bubbler's"
Good work Don!
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BIlly Vivona
Registered: March 2005
Location: Staten Island, New York
Posts: 2,910
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Fri September 2, 2005 12:51pm
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Dom - step 1: light torch. Step 2: wave torch back and forth under wrap covered with epoxy. Step 3: turn torch off. LOL!!! I use the Blue can and I have a starter thingy to light it easy, I know there's a button starter which attaches to teh top which is even easier (and more $$$). I think my kit cost me $12, a replacement can was about $5. I use heat on ALL finishes, even LS Supreme, even though you are not supposed to - works just like every other epoxy, I can't even burn it with this torch.
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John Dow
Registered: March 2005
Location: Wallingford Ct.
Posts: 72
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Sat September 3, 2005 11:42pm
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Very Nice , I'm diggin' the gold boarders on the chevrons . Great job !!
John
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Scott VanGuilder
Registered: March 2005
Location: Chisholm, MN
Posts: 265
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Sat September 10, 2005 3:01pm
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I have a brown fly rod blank here that I have been mulling what kind of a pattern to use and I was considering reversing chevrons in browns, this just made up my mind Nice work!!
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