JIG ROD
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Sorry for the profanity on the rod. If anybody cares, here's the long boring description on the building of the rod. I think it took a month to do. Something I wouldn't be doing anytime soon, unless somebody pays me.
Rubber butt cap (lol) sprayed 3 coats of polyurethane to harden the "body" but left the bottom untouched. Liquid gold leaf applied to body of butt and applied gold trim tape. Applied another 2 coats, then sanded, then final coat.
On the handle area, I braided black 90 paracord for the handle and used gold chain roping to sides. Had to redo the braid because I was distracted from the TV. Afterwards, I applied 4 coats of medium like a thread/color preserver, letting it cure for a day a coat. After final coat of preserver, applied 4 coats of medium gloss varnish and let cure for a week. Used same material for the Turk's head knot (idk it's a socal thing).
For the 22mm Fuji reel seat, I applied the same gold laying technique with the butt cap. Regular spray can clear coat was used to on the reel seat since I didn't feel like sanding the threads over and over.
On the rod itself, I made a custom Prism color shift clear to spray, which unfortunately can't be seen in the pic. Obviously I airbrushed the colors by the decal to transition from black, to rose gold, to gold, and adding different types of matching color glitter. Accidentally sneezed into the glitter so I had to redo it. Then I had to painstakingly cut gold conduction tape into pieces with a razor blade to wrap around the rod and especially around the guide areas. The description of the guide area will be in the next paragraph. By the edges of the tape, I just used regular gold glitter. Sealed everything with resin. I think I coated this thing like 10 times, waiting for each coat to cure 48 hours, and sanding from 800-3000 every time. Pain in the ass. After final coat of sanded resin, I used polish from 4000- 12000, then let it cure for a week.
For the guide area, I used that silver reflective tape that everyone uses as a footing/measurement. Then I sprayed down the guide area with a transparent gold paint. Honestly I think I mixed it wrong because it looks like gold indoors, but when the sun hits it, it looks like that fake jewelry gold (more yellow than gold). I wrapped the discontinued gold Fuji guides with Fuji gold 901 thread type D. I then used rose gold lure tape on the edges and made designs on top of the thread. Once the color preserver became somewhat tacky I added gold glitter. Underneath the guide, I added gold flakes with a tweezer around all the guides. I added one coat of thin resin to hold everything together, After the thin coat, I applied another coat but with rose gold glitter on top of the threads. Then another one final coat of regular resin.
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