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Long day nursing this one to completion in my 20 Quart pot. It'll chill until Saturday morning then rewarmed for my customer appreciation open house.

An update to my previous thread, the handle on the G Loomis 1562 GLX prototype handle rebuild is now done. As per the customer's request the original decal was not removed so a work around was required, building and installing the new handle from the back of the blank. It does present some challenges especially when the customer states exactly where the reel will sit with new fixed reel seat, which in this case was 8.5"s from the back of the rod. And while the customer is a young man he wanted the rod restored in an Old School fashion, figured Walnut wood seat, grip inserts and wood/mushroom but cap. The next step will be to replace the original garbage Recoil guides with high quality Fuji's. The following are a series of pictures I took for him from the beginning. Cheers

I'm itching to get down there Steve, bit of slow start this year for me. Hopefully I'll scratch the itch next week. This was April 8th 4 years ago, in a T shirt no less. Back to the OP, yes cut bait is best imo.

It's starting to get good,water is warming up. Cut bait is best.

Mmmmm, chili and beer.🙂

Thanks Dave, but back in the 80's I wasn't putting those seats on either. In fact my first float rod build was on an extended 10.5' S Glass and it had an aluminum seat. I had neither the skills, knowledge or the lathes back then to make seats so all my builds were a factory seat of some kind.