It's a HM 7' mh fenwick that I bought Nicole in 2007.  A couple of years ago she went to hookset and the reel fell off.  The the barrel of the split seat was loose and turned.  Fast forward a few years and I'm finally getting around to fixing it.

 

The original plan was to take the seat and grips off and rebuild from the butt, but, plans changed.  For now I'm going to try and fix it.  If it does not work then I will go back to the original plan.

 

I drilled two holes in the barrel piece and discovered that it has a cork arbor.  I then took my dremel with a barrel grinder and cut a groove all the way around the blank using the two holes for access.

 

The cork was pretty well shot so I put it on the power wrapper and turned them down a little and even gave the rear grip a bit of a split profile.

 

Next using a syringe I injected resin under the seat using the two holes as I turned the seat filling the groove.  Waiting for the epoxy to set now.  We will see how it does.

 

Solid as a rock.  I can't break it loose.  That went better than expected.  Total time including turning down the cork was about an hour.

Nice!

I screwed a reel onto a rod when the reel fell off.

 

So far, so good.

 

You did better than me and the work you did is outstanding.

 

Hope your daughter has many fun days with that rod and she can give it to her son or daughter one day.