Finishing up the Flippin' Stik

[BigBassin144]

Hey guys, we're just getting done (finally) with building my flippin' stik. We put the epoxy on and it's drying over night. Can't wait till I can fish with it, and I should be able to by tomarrow afternoon.

I don't have any pics of making the handle, but here it is complete. We fit all the cork and shapped it on the lathe. The butt cap is not on yet, but That'll be done next. We needed to leave it off to take the telescoping part out.




It took me a while to pick out the colors. i was originally going to go with black, red, and grey, but the darker colors would'nt show up as good on the slate blank. Then I was debating over blue/silver, green/gold, red/gold, or green/silver. I ended up going with the green and gold (which happen to be my school colors.)


Had tape on the blank to show where the guides went, then put them on and teped them in place.



Started wrapping with the green thread (will add the gold band later)




Time for the Gold





Then we move to the butt wrap and hook holder. Not too much room, so nothing fancy.

Gold underwrap fo rthe hook holder.

Start with green, then double, the a thing band of green to finish at the hook holder.

Same on the other side


And finally a close up of the double color. I really like how these look.


We also wrapped up to where the tip will be, but I don't have a picture of that. I'll try to get that picture and some of the finished product tomarrow.


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