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Cool! " if not, I"ll hide it" ;D

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Thank you gentleman, your compliments are sincerely appreciated memo43, I'm now bored with no other rods to do and it's going to be a loooooooooooooooooong winter! If you are serious, with you being in the service I'd be honored and wouldn't charge you for the labor. ;)Though, you should know up front that unless it's a St Croix the warranty would be void.

It took some time to get the swimbait painted and centered on the blank. Quite a few redo's before I felt it looked good enough to epoxy. I thought I'd also mention if you are going to attempt to modify a full cork handle over to a split grip, I was told you have to fill the area where you removed the threads where the foregrip was w/5 minute epoxy. so water doesn't get in there. Once dry, a light coat of acrylic paint to match the blank prior to epoxying. The nice thing with the Crucial swim bait rod,is that the winding check was rubber, so after filling w/5 minute epoxy and painting, I slid the check down and epoxyed it to the top of the threads. Thanks once again for the help!

Went from working full tme painting house and part time dog training, to 2 dog training sessions a week. > While we're in Polk county Florida from the 5th-11th, I plan on spending a few days looking for work. I wish eveyone else who's struggling, better times in the near future

Rod modifications and painting lures

Pat's sneak in the back door Though your Titans looked very impressive

IIIIIIIIIIIII LIKE IT! ;D

Sorry for my dumb reply,I obviously have no clue what I or you for that matter, was talking about ;D

Very nice! I've got to put down the paint brush and spray cans ;D and pick up a spray gun. Heck of a job

Outstandng Joe! Her smile says it all

You'll also be getting a some of these shortly, Terminators,Evolution,Mann's, Bitsy's,Booyah's and Revenge IMO, it's hard to beat Picasso and Revenge.

2nd work complete. Got a St Croix Premier given to me for selling a freinds Curado for him. Instantly went to a split grip. This is very addictive, yet very rewarding. I've gotten alot more comfortable doing it, as well as figuring out a few steps to save time and labor. Very proud of this one Can't wait to build one from scatch. Thanks again for the vote of confidence and everyones help!

Your are correct If they determine your modifications resulted in failure, you would then use the Gold Star. If they find it was not a factor in the failure the will homor the warranty. Mind you, This is only for St Croix as far as I know. Very cool option, not to mention the length of their reply to my question. Outstanding costomer service! Shimano's explination was a flat out"WARRANY IS VOID"! Can't say that I blame them. Though being extremely new to rod modification, I don't see how removing cork would weaken the structure unless you damaged the blank. Hope you'll post up the job once complete.

I'm just hoping your not a betting man ;D

Nobody mentioned the Colts?Interesting! Another fact I didn't know and quite surprised by, is that Houston is 3rd in total points scored :-? The top five in Defense are Pitt, Balt, Philly, Tenn & Wahsington :-?? This is going to be very interesting over the next few weeks.

I'm friggin crying!!!!!!! ;D ;D

Get a male and female rabbit. in 6 months you'll never have to order out again :-X

I'd like to think the Pat's will be there towards the end, but if we run into the Panthers I don't think we'll be able to stop their front line. Yet, w/my imagination running wild, this scenario comes to mind: Casal goes down in the 1st quarter and Brady makes a maraculous recovery and enters the game to win it w/a 35 yard bomb to Moss ;D

As always you guys are the best! I can't thank you enough for your expertise!

Very nice! I'm so cold and jealous right :-[ Way to go!

Nice Noverbem Faty!

OK, now that the NYG got knocked off last night, who's the best? Carolina? Tennessee? Steelers? Miami ;D Or is it stll the Pats :-/? Carolina seems to be quietly sneaking in here and wish I could get more coverage of their games. Who's going to the Super Bowl?

Looks good to me!