As some of you know I run my own business building custom rods for a living. Lately I have been wanting to build just an absolutely insanely modified fly rod that would test my skills with all sorts of tricks and extras on it. Pretty much build with excess for no other reason than because I wanted too lol. So in between customer rods I've been building this fly rod. Everything on it is all hand turned and custom made, I hand made the grip with various 1/2" cork rings and blue foam accent rings (craft foam) then did 11 coats of polyurethane with each coat hand smoothed and buffed between the next coat. All the colors you see on the rod, the blue, silver, black is all wrapped thread with finish over it. used a piece of hand turned Lacewood for the reel seat, pretty much just wanted to build a show piece of a rod. So this is what I ended up with.