Baseball Rod

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Here's a build that I finished recently. A local guy wanted me to build a rod for his buddy that reflected one of his favorite interests which is baseball. The blank is a Batson Rainshadow RX7 ISB843.

The handle was a blast to turn although it took two attempts. The walls of the first one got to be so thin that when I pushed the rod blank into it the side popped through! The decals on the handle are custom and I even got the guys signature so it looks like an authentic Louisville Slugger type of labeling. The blurred area under the signature is where the guys name is but I've decided to blur people's names when I post rods from now on.

The butt warp is the circle wrap from Billy Vivona's book. I did modify it a little. Each of all the red seams on all the baseballs are tiny little decals, 20 in all! I think it worked though, I got the look I was after.

As always I got the components from Al and Bill over at Midwest Rod and Reel. When the service is this good why go anywhere else?

[harvey lee]

Very nice, thanks for sharing.

[upnorth]

I agree very nice. I looked at the pics first and read the post 2nd so at first I was trying to figure out where the threads on the baseballs came from. Even being decals it must have been immensely tedious to get them all placed well. Again very nice.

[A.W.Wolfram]

That turned out great Chad!

I love the stiches on the balls

[pureinsanity]

Nice work

[rushing]

Batter up! Nice!