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BIlly Vivona
Registered: March 2005
Location: Staten Island, New York
Posts: 2,910
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Grip inlays on my latest rod. GRip inlays inspired by Bernie Cohen, Ray Jorgensen, Mike Cricton, and lots of pool cues, lol.
50 hours to make the grips. Rod will be on display in High Point, provided I dont' break it in a couple of weeks in the Tortuga's, lol.
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Keywords: Renaissance Grips
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James Labanowski
Registered: March 2005
Location: Oxnard, California
Posts: 2,061
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Tue November 21, 2006 11:37am
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What a work of art Billy. Awesome.
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Mick McComesky
Registered: March 2005
Location: St. Louis, MO
Posts: 556
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Tue November 21, 2006 12:01pm
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That's truly outstanding work, Billy. I love them. I still have trouble doing a simple, one color shape, which makes these even more amazing to me.
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BIlly Vivona
Registered: March 2005
Location: Staten Island, New York
Posts: 2,910
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Tue November 21, 2006 12:19pm
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Thanks Doc & Mick. Mick, what kind of trouble are you having?
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Mick McComesky
Registered: March 2005
Location: St. Louis, MO
Posts: 556
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Tue November 21, 2006 12:50pm
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Billy, generally getting clean edges/lines. I haven't quite found the knack yet, but I'm getting closer. Gonna be a long time before I can do something like these though. I especially like the 3-D effect of the sword. Great job.
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BIlly Vivona
Registered: March 2005
Location: Staten Island, New York
Posts: 2,910
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Tue November 21, 2006 1:01pm
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Mick, feel free to e-mail me your procedure, and I will try my best to help you through some of the problems you are running into. Regardless of how clean you cut teh edges, it seems when you glue them in it's no longer a straight line. It's not like wood where if you cut out a diamond, and inlay a diamond, you end up with a diamond, lol. With foam, an edge gets stuck, one side gets compressed, tehre's a million things that can go wrong, and always seem to, lol.
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Jim Upton
Registered: March 2005
Location: Huntington Beach, CA
Posts: 440
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Tue November 21, 2006 2:08pm
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Great job Billy. I'll look forward to seeing this one in High Point.
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Mark Fisher
Registered: March 2005
Location: Broken Hill, N.S.W, Australia
Posts: 1,715
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Tue November 21, 2006 3:17pm
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This is just to good to rate Billy. Fantastic.
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Ralph Scaglione
Registered: March 2005
Posts: 1,009
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Tue November 21, 2006 3:45pm
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Outstanding !!!!! great colors for the theme.....just perfect
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BIlly Vivona
Registered: March 2005
Location: Staten Island, New York
Posts: 2,910
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Tue November 21, 2006 3:51pm
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Jim - I had another inlay I planned to put in the grip, but MAY make that my first weave, which is a perfect theme for this rod. Will see. Mark, thank you. Ralph, thank you as well - the colors werent' really hard to pick, lol. To me that color Maroon is a "Royalty" color, and I happened to have several shades of grey EVA, and I put most of them to use in this grip. This is as close to shading with EVA as I think I can get, and I'm extremely pleased with the results - rarely the case.
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Pat Vinzant
Registered: November 2006
Posts: 2
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Tue November 21, 2006 4:41pm
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Billy-Your art work is simply amazing. Think its great that you are carrying on the work of Bernie Cohen who also inspired me to use the same technique for my fish image feather inlays.
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Raymond_Adams
Registered: May 2005
Location: Sacramento, CA
Posts: 2,244
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Tue November 21, 2006 4:52pm
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Me thinks thou hast impressed the Queen squire Billy! Kneel now and be knighted!
Truly impressive Billy!
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stan mclean
Registered: September 2005
Location: MA
Posts: 321
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Tue November 21, 2006 5:26pm
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very very very nice!
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Tom Kirkman
Registered: March 2005
Location: North Carolina
Posts: 1,568
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Tue November 21, 2006 5:53pm
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It will be a shame for someone to get fish slime all over these.
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Mike Barkley
Registered: March 2005
Location: Southgate, Michigan
Posts: 1,119
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Tue November 21, 2006 6:58pm
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WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Jerry Poindexter
Registered: May 2005
Location: DFW
Posts: 69
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Tue November 21, 2006 7:08pm
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Incredible work !!!!
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