Haven't been in the shop in almost forever. Winging it on a grip set for a member who is building his own swimbait rod. I have an idea, I just hope I can pull it off.

 

 

The first attempt failed miserably.  I'm almost happy with this so far (and that's saying alot! Lol)  I think I need to square up the table on my bandsaw.

That looks interesting. Looking forward to seeing where you're going with this.

I'm looking forward to recognizing what I'm looking at.

 

Can’t wait to see the finished product. 

 

Its going on a phenix USB-790H I’m building for slinging big swimbaits from my kayak. Using Alps textouch reel seat with cobalt blue hood and cobalt trim pieces. Still don’t have guides selected yet but am leaning towards alps titanium guides. 

Back at it again..... making it up as I go!

 

 

I wondered what was going between those two pieces. Very nice!!

Back at it today.  Rough turned.

 

 

 

 

It's beautiful, I've been lost from the first post.

The rest if the grip came to me in a dream earlier in the week.  Cut and glued up 36 cork squares yesterday.

 

Those blocks will sandwich the herringbone inlay.

Sweet!!!!

Beautiful work!

The fades came out nice.