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harvey lee

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The handi capped group I guide for each year in North Dakota has a banquet every year the last night of the hunt on Saturday night. We collect items for the banquet for the silent auction and the live auction.

This year I am building a spinning rod to donate for the live auction.

Tell me how this sounds.

7' ML St Croix SCV legend Elite rod blank with split cedar wood grips and the location where the reel seats connects I have my son turning a piece of whitetail antler to use there.

This rod will have the micro guides in black and the thread color is garnet.

Then I have a whitetail antler on the wood with the wording Twist of Fate which is the name of the group I guide for. This is on the piece of cedar at the butt of the rod.

In the end on the butt end, I am putting a set of whitetail antlers on a decal for that spot.

On the rod blank in front of the foregrip, I have a decal with the Twist of Fate name and phyically challenged archery hunt. Also on the decal is an arrow and on the other side will be a buck deer head.

I had Chad at Huderle custom rods turn the red cedar grips for me and he also put the declas on the wood. They almost look like they were burned into the wood as he did that nice of a job. For anyone looking to purchase some custom red cedar grips or for decal work, Chad does simply awesome work.

When I have this done in a week or so, I will post some pics of this rod.

I am hoping this goes over big at the live auction to raise some extra funds for the handi capped archer we bring in to hunt for 5 days every fall.

We bring in up to 15 phyically challenged archers from all over the U.S. and this hunt is totally free from the food, lodging, license and the guided hunt. All of the deer are also professionally butchered for the hunter.

This hunt is the highlight of all of my fall activities.

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Red Cedar split grips with logo and deer head

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Butt end with whitetail head. Small glare in the middle.

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Garnet thread color with grey trim ring.

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Whitetail antler turned for the reel seat.

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Twist of Fate logo with hardwoods background wrapped on the blank in front of the foregrip.

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Pictures are large but I had too as I wanted all to show for the wording and decals. Not that great with the camera for zooming in.

The space between the butt end and the back of the reel seat with the blank garnet thread wrap was put there incase the person who receives this rod can add his name in that position if they so choose.

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Scupper

I went online to google and pull up some photo's to use.

Chad @ Huderle Custom Rod's makes and sells waterslide decals and I had Chad use this photo and then add the deer head in front of the wording I also had Chad print on the decal. Chad does an awesome job on the waterslide decals.

I also did a underwrap for the decal in garnet with a grey trim in front to tie all the guides wraps and wraps by the grips together. I was please with how it all tied together.

Hope the person that recieves this is also pleased.

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Thank you for explaining your process. Very creative and thought out.

I'm most confident in the recipients joy of receiving your custom creation.

Scott

P.S, in the past, I've had communication with Chad and he is very insightful with his knowledge in sharing of the custom rod building process.

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Well, the hunt and banquet and auction was this past weekend.

The rod I built was auctioned off and 7 people really wanted the rod and it sold for $400.

Some of the guys asked if this was going to be an annual thing as they wanted one of these rods. I said I would be building another for the auction again next Sept.

I was very happy with the dollar amount as I was a bit concerned that it would not go for enough.

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