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Lure & Rod Building => Rod Building Forum => Topic started by: Jake Grey on February 21, 2015, 04:43:05 PM

Title: Some of My Work (Just for fun) - Pic Heavy
Post by: Jake Grey on February 21, 2015, 04:43:05 PM: I fiddle around in the winter with some stuff for myself and Judy. Here's a few pics of the stuff that didn't end up in the dumpster:

Replaced broken reel seat and handle on my old favorite Fenwick:

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Built the rod making/threading jig that I use with all parts from Lowe's:

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I made myself a little finesse spinning rod on a green blank with a Jamaican coin in the butt cap that I got while visiting my daughter who was living there at the time:

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Made Judy a Pink Lady spinning rod with "holographic" guides that turned out to be her favorite rod until I made the mistake of buying her a GLoomis SJR 722 IMX for her birthday last year:

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It passes the time during these Ohio winters.

Jake
Title: Re: Some of My Work (Just for fun) - Pic Heavy
Post by: Jimmy RodandReel on February 21, 2015, 04:49:40 PM: (y) (y)
Title: Re: Some of My Work (Just for fun) - Pic Heavy
Post by: Curt on February 21, 2015, 11:55:38 PM: Really like that coin in the butt of that one rod. Very unique (y)
Title: Re: Some of My Work (Just for fun) - Pic Heavy
Post by: Jake Grey on February 22, 2015, 10:01:16 AM: Quote from: Curt on February 21, 2015, 11:55:38 PM
Really like that coin in the butt of that one rod. Very unique (y)

Thanks Curt. There are a couple funny stories behind that coin. My daughter was living in Kingston, Jamaica doing research and attending the University of the West Indies as a Fulbright Scholar under their Ministry of Agriculture (sorry, had to throw in that proud pops moment) back in 2003. I wanted an uncirculated Jamaican coin about the size of our penny to use as a butt decoration so I went to a bank to do a currency exchange. That was a whole howdy-ya-do finding uncirculate coins and the minimum exchange was something like $50 US so now I'm walking around Kingston, Jamaica with about $500 Jamaican cash in my pocket which if you've ever been to Kingston is not too smart.

But I have my shiny coin, dated 2003. It is their 10 cent piece which is roughly the equivalent of our penny in value. Anyhow after I mount the coin I want to cover it with epoxy. Getting it level was the challenge so I'm in our basement on a step ladder devising a way to hang the rod from the ceiling, tip down, and I pour the epoxy on the coin and it self levels. Two coats and it is still as shiny today as back in 2003 when I bought it! :)

Jake
Title: Re: Some of My Work (Just for fun) - Pic Heavy
Post by: Curt on February 22, 2015, 12:40:30 PM: Cool story @Jake Grey ;D ;D