a little experiment for my brother. built on an ancient Fenwick blank. A Fuji plate type seat on a mixed cork grip. Wrapped with D size red Gudebrod thread and finished without CP.

Looks like you have been a busy man. I've read and toyed with the idea of the plate seat but tend to stick to the Tennessee grip. What's your brother plan on using that rod for?

34 minutes ago, EvanT123 said:

Looks like you have been a busy man. I've read and toyed with the idea of the plate seat but tend to stick to the Tennessee grip. What's your brother plan on using that rod for?

I have no idea, and neither does he. LOL

Was toying with the plate idea too.  Was thinking about putting it on a texalum tube.

If you're interested, I turned the grip down to slightly larger that the final size. Then cut a shallow groove where the wraps would go. I filled the grooves with epoxy and let it cure for  a week. After sanding it  all down to  the final size,  I had  three  very smooth and  fairly  hard bases for  the  seat wraps. Made  it a  lot easier  than wrapping straight  on the  soft  cork.

I'm working on a improved version, using large diameter graphite arbors in place of cork rings, placed where the seat wraps go.

I'm in the middle of  trimming the arbors to length, to get it correct for the length for the wraps. And, trimming to length the sections between the arbors. The Fuji plate seat does not exactly line up with any  arrangement  of 1/4  and 1/2" cork rings.

I'll post some pics, with dimensions, when I get home from a little vacation trip.