my best ever custom rod, went to cr@p!: Steelheader.net- Steelhead, Salmon and trout fishing

well this is the update to my harrington rod search. there are none.... thanks so much to Harry in his assistance with recommending a lamiglass fiberglass blank for my buddy.

cut to the chase, he went to anglers and got what he needed. trust me, not enough. he also handed me a bag of embroidery thread and mystery threads and said, i want all these colors(threads) used. keep in mind these were bought at Micheals craft store! i told him to go to homies depot to get the rope he wants for the handle. he shows up with no rope cause homies depot didn't have the blue/black rope. he then gives me cash to purchase dyes and rope.

things go very well, got the rope and dye and make blue/black rope.

do all the gold thread under layment for all 9 guides. easy. put on all guides with royal blue thread. easy. trim w/metallic black embroidry thread. grrrr!

wrap both royal blue and black rope handle, set reel seat. rope fore grip. tough but got er'done. things look actually very sharp. take pics cause this rod is looking very sharp.

now to tackle his requisted multi color butt wrap. this brewer has never attempted. but things go well. color preserve and put 1st coat of clear coat on all thread. DAM LOOKS VERY GOOD! 99% finished. now keep in mind that 95% of this rod has been put together after working a swing shift and harbouring a buzz of many different boozes, good buzz is my motto to doing a decent custom rod. every morning i'd wonder out to see if things actually looked as good as when i finally crashed. and yes it was good the brewer said unto himself. now follow me to the 2nd and final clear coat.

before we go there let brewer faze in a more ruthless plot to the rod story. brewer has now spawned two sons in the last 3 years. microbrew being the 1st is a gem of a 3 year old boy. macrobrew the now 14 month old is proving to be the polar opposite of the macro in every facet. he is the curse that every parent puts onto thier children... " i hope you have one kid just like yourself when you have kids" lord knows i now have that kid. macrobrew eats handfulls of sand from the sandbox! he relishes it! i've given up on keeping it from him while plays outside. i'm dumb founed as he shovels it in.... i came home from work last night to find a note on his bedroom door. "babyman has bad rash on his buttom, use butt spackle please. here brewer knows thats not buttrash thats sandburn!!! flash forward 9hrs. wensday morning.

things are going very well am thinking my contact will pick up the rod this afternoon. macrobrew is watching a thing on PBS, say sesame street. macrow is out in garage with me trashing the place but all in all quite. there is where my gamble shoots brewer in arse! i chuck up the rod to a brewer made rotisserie drill, thing. all is peacefull. i began to mix hardners..... then the blood curtling scream boils from the macrobrew!!! i look and continue to mix! he's fine but is taking a morning sandy dump in his diaper and by the breaking of my eardrums it hurts!!! the epoxy is now clicking down, i Rush to get the eyes of the now nearly finished custom rod. the screams of sand blasted burning cr@p are everywhere! all i think of was get the ticking epoxy on and turn the rod and change burning fiery diaper!! but tears and screams prove to much!! i drop the brush and epoxy and run macro to bedroom and change the sandpit diaper amongst tears, snot and saliva!!! slap on a more than liberaral amount of butt spackle and seal a fresh diaper on the roasting red bunns! throw macro into crib and dash to garage to find the epoxy stiff and gloopy hard! 5 of the 9 eyes now look like sandy crap!!!

whats my options to fix the hardened goops?

please help!

i now know macro did this on purpose! i love that boy to death but he is proving to be too much for brewer!!!

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