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13 years ago
Anthony Lee
Simple Tartan, with orange and black and white trims on a pearl white blank.
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15 years ago
Anthony Lee
A light trout rod done on a GLoomis SJ 781 IMX. Wood is most Maple burl and reel seat skeleton is Pac Bay. Matagi's rubber butt balancer replaced with Maple.
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15 years ago
Anthony Lee
Split handle with blue tartan to match St Croix 4C66MF color, complete with Matagi's sprayed ACS reel seat and other Matagi's components.
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15 years ago
Anthony Lee
BV's Space Star on a GF760L
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15 years ago
Anthony Lee
A very popular choice from my customers, simple but very intricate Snowflakes
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15 years ago
Anthony Lee
After nearly a 2 month break finally got down to do something for myself. This will be on my shore casting rod, a St Croix 3SC96HF2, 12-25 line.
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15 years ago
Anthony Lee
A simple favorite of mine, a blue tartan on a pearl white blank.
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15 years ago
Anthony Lee
Tried another variation and used Mark Daley's idea of "fading into the night".
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15 years ago
Anthony Lee
My favorite Tartan on a split grip surrounded with Matagi's jewelry.
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16 years ago
Anthony Lee
Can't help but try this Out & Out variation. Took a turn at the end and boxed it in. Not sure it looks right but so what.
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16 years ago
Anthony Lee
11. CRTA 60
Metalic threads are not my favorite but was forced into this one. Pattern was a slightly too large for the blank but owner likes it despite the colors being not to my liking.
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14 years ago
Anthony Lee
Hasn't been here for quite a while. This bird is done on a Matagi Popping blank PE 7, butt joint.
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16 years ago
Anthony Lee
The other one is side by side and this one faces one another.
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16 years ago
Anthony Lee
It's done on a small diameter rod and it look like Roses facing opposite direction. The next photo show them side. Maybe Billy should give it another name when done this way.
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16 years ago
Anthony Lee
Finally got down to complete BV's roses for my wife. It was for our 35th anniversary but missed it by about 10 days. Satisfied with the rose but not pleased with the closing as I could have added some metalic red trims.
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16 years ago
Anthony Lee
Same thunderbird after epoxy. Will love this rod, a 2 pc GLoomis SJ783-2 with simple spiral and with my first new Fuji ACS reel seat.
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16 years ago
Anthony Lee
Built my first rod for myself on the new Fuji ACS reel seat. Extremely comfortable for my small fingers.
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16 years ago
Anthony Lee
Finally got down to building a rod for myself after about a year. Like the bird and it's on my 2 pc. GLoomis mahogany.
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16 years ago
Anthony Lee
The GF760L cropped to 5'6" from the butt makes a good spiral rod for deep ocean jigging. It's faster than normal Japanese jiggers and I personally feel this config is better for multipliers.
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16 years ago
Anthony Lee
On the left is the Jig Master 500 gm blank from Japan and on the right is the Calstar GF 760 L 30-80 lb. Both butts were chopped, the JM by 1 foot and the Calstar by 6" to build heavy deep ocean jiggers.
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16 years ago
Anthony Lee
Slimline thunderbird done on blue/black fade with bronze trim. Would have been more satisfying if I had done a double.
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16 years ago
Anthony Lee
My first simple spiral at the Maldives. The 35lb, 5'9" rod landed a 12 kg GT. From the photo the line simply went straight through and all the guides loaded beautifully.
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16 years ago
Anthony Lee
23. CRTA 19
A simple 2 color open wrap that can be quite attractive. Just take about 2.5 hours including tie-off.
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16 years ago
Anthony Lee
Wrapped this on an 11mm diameter blank and could not close the bird resulting in aoversized head. Body in yellow, sunburst and bronze.
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16 years ago
Anthony Lee
Another of my client's favorite, snowflakes on split grip.
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16 years ago
Anthony Lee
Tried white guide wrap using Gudebrod NCP white on white CTS blank.... two distinct whites.
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16 years ago
Anthony Lee
27. STAR
STAR for my close friend who loves yellow on green.
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16 years ago
Anthony Lee
28. CREST
Crest done on an 11.5mm rod. Came out reasonably well and reluctant to close it.
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16 years ago
Anthony Lee

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16 years ago
Anthony Lee
Tripple CRTA 48 on 3 identical Matagi Flickers 40 lb light jiggers for a father and his 2 sons.
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