The grip is made with natural, mixed and burnt cork with an Alps Tri Reel Seat.
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From Billy's book an In- Out+
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A spider wrap from Billy's book in blue, silver and black.
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A simple spider wrap for a Walnut grip on a Batson Fly Rod.
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The grip is made with stabilized dyed blue maple, trimmed with aluminum, corian and gift cards. The reel seat insert is a 7/8" acrylic pen blank.
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The grip is a hanging web made with Walnut, Maple Veneer and Cocobolo. The reel seat insert is a acrlyic pen blank with a Pac Bay A7 skeleton reel seat.
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The other side of the grip.
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I had a few pieces left over from a hanging web and thought I'd see how they turned out. It formed a wave pattern, one that will be hard to duplicate. The lines move from both ends and just happened to end up close to where I needed them.
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I wish that I could take credit for the marble work on the reel. Most of you can guess that it's one of Putters reels. I got a chance to catch up to him last August, just getting around to posting it now. The photos don't do it justice the colors just work perfectly.
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Another spotlight star from Teh Book. This is the thread wrap for the spalted hickory grip.
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I thought that I'd try another pattern from Billy's book and gave the spotlight star a try. I really like the pattern and it's on one of the new purple rods from St. Croix.
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Another veiw of the reel seat and ends.
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I used some dyed and stabilized spalted hickory from realseatblanks.com. It's a simple grip with out segmentation and I used a large pen blank for the real seat insert. Thread work is the spot light star.
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I bought a bunch of cork about a year ago at the St Croix store on a close out. The cost of this cork was $1.00, I reshaped it and installed on one of the new purple blanks from St Croix.
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I've been having some fun with a project. I cast a fly into a piece of imitation ivory. I like the results and have a couple of other prototypes in the works for a spinning rod.
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I just wanted to show a finished grip, the rod shipped off to Owen in Australia a little over a week ago. Owen will do the weave next then off to Jorge for a wrap.
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I just wanted to show a finished grip, the rod shipped off to Owen in Australia a little over a week ago. Owen will do the weave next then off to Jorge for a wrap.
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I thought I should include a photo of the side of the web. It gives kind of a neat scalloped look.
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This is the unfinished top veiw of the mid grip with the alps reel seat. I'm trying to show the grip as it progresses through the stages.
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I just wanted to show the progress of the rod. These are the rough blanks for the spider web mid grip as well as the fore and aft grip.
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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 abo
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I finally got a chance to build a spider web for a fly rod. The rod is a Batson f864-4 with a web made of Wenge, Maple and imitation ivory. The reel seat is an American Tackle skeleton with an acrylic pen blank.
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I built my wife a new rod on the Mud Hole pink blanks. The grip is made with burnt mixed burl cork, regular cork, gift cards (white lines) and corian for trim.
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I made a new rod for my wife on one of the Mud Hole pink blanks. The pattern is from Billy's book it's the Dodge Ram 4X4. It's an interesting pattern and fun to do. My wifes still not sure about the colors, but they are growing on me.
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This rod is for a minister performing a wedding. It's his gift from the bride to be, I wasn't 100 percent sure of the colors, but it seems to wook.
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I tried a different pattern for a change. I think it's the Ins Out- variation in Billy's book. I screwed up a little, but it was to close to cut off and start over on. I did learn some thing for the next one.
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A closer veiw of the petal variation.
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I've been playing with a different pattern. It's a variation of the petals, the wood is Big Leaf Maple Burl, Walnut and Che-Chen (sp). I mounted it on an old green St. Croix (green) Elite ES70MF.
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I think that I'm starting to see spiders every where. Easy and simple to do, thanks Billy for the "Book".
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I have a couple of different simple grips that I have completed recently. The top is burl cork with purple heart reel seat. The second down is dyed stabilized hickory with a cherry burl reel seat. The third down is a dyed black ash burl with a brick maple reel seat. The bottom is a burl cork with abilone knife scales and white oak reel seats. The wood for the stabilized inserts and grips came fro
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