Failure to Success - Now Finished

[Spiel]

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 rod 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