Rainshadow ISJ782 spinning rod

[rushing]

My new river jiggin stick.

Rainshadow ISJ782 6'6 6-12lb M Fast

Fuji Uplock reel seat

Alps TiCh guides.

Managed a 18in eyeball to break her in this afternoon.

My first CKW attempt

Baptized this afternoon in the mud of the Minnesota River.

[pureinsanity]

As always rob nice work! I dig it. Did you die the cork?

[rushing]

Thanks

Its metallic green colored epoxy.

[pureinsanity]

Right on. How did you like doing the ckw? Ive thought about doing it but wonder how the epoxy handles mono. What #age did you use? Looks like rather large #.

Again sweet job!

Let me know how the mono holds up to color fade with sun.

[Carpenter]

Nice work rushing

[Eric_Kruger]

Im a rookie, whats CKW? How did you get the color in the epoxy?

[CAMAN]

Awesome job Rushing! Those grips look sweet!

[CAMAN]

Im a rookie, whats CKW? How did you get the color in the epoxy?

It stands for "Comedy Kaleidoscope Wrap", it's similar to a Tiger Wrap where they wrap a base thread color, then wrap a top thread color and do some tricks to make a tiger like pattern. But instead of a top thread wrap they use a Mono fishing line that creates an optical effect.

Edit:

Here's an excerpt from Rod Crafters Journal that goes into great detail.

CKW

[rushing]

Yep what Caman said.

Colored the epoxy with some metallic green paint.

[unfrozen]

Looks good. What did you use to tint the epoxy on the cork, PearlX?

[pureinsanity]

I am more curious how you dried the rod. Did you epoxy the cork before you glued it to the rod? Wondering how you put that baby in the dryer with out the chuck toughing the finish.

[rushing]

Looks good. What did you use to tint the epoxy on the cork, PearlX?

Testor's Metallic Green paint.

Nick - I dried it with a my mind powers.

Proof the rod works.