Using a soft-touch Aero seat up-locking, couple with custom seat ramps from carbon fiber and a great Rainshadow Immortal blank, and you have a wonderfully comfortable rod, very sensitive, and a really nice, clean, design.  I used Microwaves on it.  

Looks extremely comfortable!

Sharp looking grip.  I like the Aeros uplocking.  I do a little shorter foregrip through.

The foregrip is patterned after the EVA piece that Amtac sells for the aero.  It really feels good.  When I do another I'll try smaller and see how I like it.  The rear piece is basically just for aesthetic reasons, to sort of balance the look.  The hand never gets there.  Thanks for the comments.

Good looking grip!

Looks good. I don't do many up locking for myself because of the way I grip the reel stem the heel of my hand rests on the threads or hood. 

That would be great if you hold the rod with your hand in front of the reel. I have two fingers either side of the reel stem, so I build mine with the seat downlocking and no foregrip. That's the beauty of custom building.

I normally hold the reel between the two fingers as mentioned, but I started using this one moving one finger up and did it intuitively and without any problem.  I like uplocking because it puts my fingers onto the front ramp without contacting any threads.  I tend to like bigger ramps than most.  I think that if more people tried bigger ramps, like my personal pic rod, which is a size 18 seat, they would like them.  The problem with the ergonomics of most spinning rods is that the seats are too small for most hands.  I never use smaller than a 17 any more, sometimes 18, and my hands are not that big.

I normally hold the reel between the two fingers as mentioned, but I started using this one moving one finger up and did it intuitively and without any problem.  I like uplocking because it puts my fingers onto the front ramp without contacting any threads.  I tend to like bigger ramps than most.  I think that if more people tried bigger ramps, like my personal pic rod, which is a size 18 seat, they would like them.  The problem with the ergonomics of most spinning rods is that the seats are too small for most hands.  I never use smaller than a 17 any more, sometimes 18, and my hands are not that big.  Below is another, also size 18.

Oops, that's a 17.