To do something a little different, I left off the front grip on my new rod and built up a flake finish. Hard to photograph, but it looks pretty slick with the blue metalic thread.

Hope you enjoy, I know I do.

Looks realy cool . If u dont mind me asking how did you do it.

Must be a redneck...they all love sparkly stuff! Did you make it match your boat? I like it by the way. Always good to be creative.
Mike

Mike is a closet David Allen Coe fan.
Senko - that looks like it might glow under a blacklight or a full moon. Tried that? Looks very cool!
Like Tom, I, too, am interested in what you used. Flocking? Your daughters glitter?

BTW - Senkoman sounds very familiar. Do you hang out at Bass Resource or one of those dangerous websites?

edit: Your boat looks familiar, too.

I'm just a college educated redneck, and yes it does kind of match my boat. Might have to put an orange reel on it! Go Gators!

It is 3 colors of very small poly flake (aka glitter) mixed in Flex Coat. Last coat was just blue flake over blue, black blue and silver.

And yes I hang out on a few Bass Boat sights.

Now lets see the rest of the rod

There are a few pictures in the Beginners forum. I tried a couple times to get a decent picture of the spiral but the depth of field for the camera just didn't show it very well. I used 180 120 60 0 approach.

Senko. The more that I look at this, the more I like it. I would like to know a few more details. All I have ever used is the 'dust' glitter that is $10 for a little jar.

I custom paint lures, so I have a lot of different flake around. I used 3 colors of flake on this as I built it up. The silver flake is actually a super fine flake from Hobby Town that I believe PARMA makes and I usually mix this in a translucent base so I can airbrush it on lures. It is sold with other PARMA paints to paint the lexan bodys of model cars. The black/blue green (kind of a junebug thing) came from Hobby Lobby and is super fine and I could probably spray it with a larger tip, but I don't, I just mix it with epoxy to apply. The larger blue flake came from AC Moore (but I think Hobby Lobby might sell it) and it is fairly common made by Glitterex.

I just mixed all 3 with my rod epoxy and built it up in 3 layers. And like most epoxies I think it is best to not let it cure completely before applying the next layer.

I was originally going to use the glitter mix for accents but decided against that and opted for the metallic thread. Although I will probably try it for accents at some point and just tape off the thread and apply it first then seal the entire wraps after this starts to set 80%.

I don't know how you guys can tie one of those hard baits on after spending so much time on them. Kills me to lose a little fly I tied.
Hey, I just saw the remark about David Allen Coe. Love that guy, didn't he write the perfect country song?

Mike

Steve Goodman wrote it for David Allen Coe.

And Coe wrote 'Take This Job And Shove It' for Paycheck.