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mark blabaum
Registered: June 2006
Location: Southwest - Wisconsin
Posts: 1,282
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The World rod started as a lark, a mention on a BBS of combining the talents of myself and noted weavers; Doc Ski, Owen Dare (Australia) and the wrapping talents of Jorge Pozzobon (Brazil). The four of us thought it would be fun to see what we could do and started on this venture. The rod will be the work of builders from around the world, truly an international rod. Doc contacted Bill Batson about a blank and the Batsons came through big time with a donation of the blank, reel seat and the components to build the rod. I'd like to thank Bill for the Batson's generous donation and I only hope that we can do the blank justice.
The pictures enclosed are of the components from Batson Enterprise, I'm going to try and keep this thread going by showing the progress of the rod as it travels around the continents and I hope that the others will post here as they receive the rod and improve on it. I will post a picture tomorrow of the rough blanks and the progress of the spider web as it goes from blank to grip. The rod will be donated to Doc to be raffled off at the West Coast Custom Rodbuilder Show for a charity of Doc's choice.
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Jim Rippe
Registered: March 2005
Location: Hammond, Indiana
Posts: 621
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I am sure this rod will be excellent. It will be nice to see the progress.
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c jeff mccall
Registered: August 2008
Location: fl panhandle near destin
Posts: 157
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I can't wait to see what ya'll come up, just how far will the bar be raised?
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Stan Grace
Registered: March 2005
Location: Helena, Montana
Posts: 337
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Best of luck on your project. With that talent pool it will definitely be a heirloom piece.
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