Hand Laid Carbon Fiber Ultra-Light Spinning Rod

[A.W.Wolfram]

Hand Laid Carbon Fiber Ultra-Light Spinning Rod.

Batson Revalution - REV62UL

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Full wrapped hand laid carbon fiber grip

[Alagnak]

Sweet. They just keep getting better and better :-)

[Jmeyers]

Must be super light, nice work!

[Carpenter]

Very nice. Im curious if you built the grip on the blank or on a mandrel. Also curious how you did the reel seat. No idea there at all. Just looking to learn.

[A.W.Wolfram]

Good questions. The grips are made on mandrels. The carbon is bedded over 6# foam that I turn to shape on a lathe. The reel seat on this one is a little tricky. Its a combination of a modified tube reel seat and foam that is bedded with carbon.

[Carpenter]

Very cool. I've done some carbon, but never that thin on the handle. There can't be much foam left, but I'm guessing there isn't much needed as the CF is really all you need. I still don't know how you can make such nice neat edges on the reel seat, but that's ok. Very nice work Wolfram.

[A.W.Wolfram]

Well if you go to the Iowa Tri-State gathering or the St Croix BYOB Gathering you can see first hand

[Carpenter]

Been a couple years since ive been to byob, might have to make the trip.