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stan mclean Registered: September 2005 Location: MA Posts: 321	Modded Fuji reel seat, Kameleon Paint (green to blue to purple), Frog and crossbones inlay.
	· Date: Wed May 16, 2007 · Views: 3,700 · Filesize: 53.5kb, 648.7kb · Dimensions: 1200 x 1553 ·
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	Keywords: EVA inlay, painted reel seat

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Rich Handrick

Registered: September 2006
Location: Wisconsin
Posts: 79

Wed May 16, 2007 8:33am

That reelseat is AWESOME. Dremel and alot of patience I take it? :-) Very, very nice work overall. Love the frog and crossbones :-)

mark blabaum

Registered: June 2006
Location: Southwest - Wisconsin
Posts: 1,282

Wed May 16, 2007 8:38am

Very nice Stan, I love the thought of Kermit as a Pirate LOL.

BIlly Vivona

Registered: March 2005
Location: Staten Island, New York
Posts: 2,910

Wed May 16, 2007 9:09am

HArdcore KErmit + a fancily cutom reel seat with a paint job. GReat job!!

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Rich Handrick

Registered: September 2006
Location: Wisconsin
Posts: 79

Wed May 16, 2007 2:15pm

Geez! Is it just me or does it look like those crossbones are from a piggy???

That reelseat could be used on an alien themed rod too!

Mark Fisher

Registered: March 2005
Location: Broken Hill, N.S.W, Australia
Posts: 1,715

Wed May 16, 2007 5:04pm

Nice work Stan. Very original.

Stan Armstrong

Registered: May 2007
Posts: 2

Wed May 16, 2007 8:53pm

OUTSTANDING

Ellis Mendiola

Registered: March 2005
Location: Houston, Texas
Posts: 629

Wed May 16, 2007 9:39pm

Ernie Johnson

Registered: March 2006
Location: Maine
Posts: 32

Wed May 16, 2007 11:33pm

Cool stuff

Love the green handle!

stan mclean

Registered: September 2005
Location: MA
Posts: 321

Thu May 17, 2007 4:13pm

Thanks. I have a reel and blank painted up to match, if I ever get a chance to finish it. The color changing paint looks really cool in the sun.
I did most of the reel seat with files and sandpaper.

BIlly Vivona

Registered: March 2005
Location: Staten Island, New York
Posts: 2,910

Mon November 5, 2007 7:14pm

BUMP - having seen this in person, and just how comfortable & how preciely "modded" teh reel seat is, it deserves a second look. I could not believe this was done by hand, I looked at teh seat pretty hard to find an inaccuracy, tried to see where one side would be slighly off from teh other, and maybe a spot where teh curvature on teh sides was a litttle off - it was perfect. VERY impressive, as were all your rods. IT goes to show you can build a highly functional rod with some decoration on it to make it look truly custom and not cookie cutter.

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