This is my first attempt at a snake skin inlay.  The skin is a rattle snake skin inlayed in the split grip portion of this rod.  I also did a feather inlay, the inlay is a Reeves pheasant, with grizzly hackle and a Eurasion bluejay feather on the back side (not visable in pic).

This rod is built on a Rainshadow ISB843 7' Medium heavy blank.  I haven't gotten the guides wrapped yet.  Alot of epoxy work on the inlays.

Thanks,

Mike

That snake skin inlay is beautiful on that rod, looks great! Nice job on that

wow that looks amazing... really nice work man.

very nice, Very Nice!

They both look great. I knew snakes were good for something. Maybe I should pay a visit to the snake restaurant, a few miles away.

Dave

Now that is cool!  I'll bet that would look really good on a stickbait.

id love to have one of these made for my dad... if your interested in it shoot me a pm

thats so dang bad a$  s

that's awesome!

I'd love a rod w/ some personal mods like that

Thanks for the comments guys.  This build was a lot of fun.

Mike

Wow...now that is unusual

Beautiful!!! ALMOST too pretty to use---Almost!

thays insane