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Finally!
Posted by:
Phil Richmond
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Date: December 30, 2007 09:18PM Started this rod three months ago but left underway before I could finish. Murphy's law kicked my behind on this one, if it could go wrong it pretty much did. The gold threads loosened up in the wrap, something caused hundreds of tiny fisheyes in two of the coats of epoxy on the buttwrap, put the micro-sol on before the epoxy was fully cured and it ate through the epoxy, figured out the hard way that the peel and stick striped bass decal from Merrick didn't have a removable backing as the laser cut ones do. (I kept trying to pull the backing off but the fish would come off with it). Anyway, lots of lessons learned and the end result still looks good. The colors started off as a joke since he broke the last rod I sent him, but turned out very nice. Sorry, only registered users may post in this forum.
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