Fishing The Fly Scotland Forum

Eddie Sinclair

Re: Summer building
« Reply #30 on: 17/04/2020 at 23:27 »
Sandy, looking good. Once all the travel restrictions are over and I head to Louisiana to the Lafayette office I aim to get a bend or two in the rod with some redfish.

Fast glass is much more robust than graphite for messing around in the back country. Thanks as always for an excellent build. I guess I will just have to content myself with a few practice casts in the garden for now.

Eddie  :z18

Jim Eddie

Re: Summer building
« Reply #31 on: 17/04/2020 at 23:28 »
Blue is the colour  :cool:
 :z18

Jim

Eddie Sinclair

Re: Summer building
« Reply #32 on: 18/04/2020 at 00:39 »
Jim, that could be an FA  cup song.

You need to be a certain age to remember the Chelsea squad singing (badly) to those words.

Eddie

Jim Eddie

Re: Summer building
« Reply #33 on: 19/04/2020 at 19:06 »
Jim, that could be an FA  cup song.

You need to be a certain age to remember the Chelsea squad singing (badly) to those words.

Eddie
according

Aye football is the game  Eddie

 :z18
Jim

Eddie Sinclair

Re: Summer building
« Reply #34 on: 06/05/2020 at 17:20 »
 :z18






Sandy,

The 888 arrived today. Took a couple of pics with the Sds bonefish reel and had a few casts on the grass. Looks ace and casts great, thanks again for an excellent build. Once lockdown is out of the way I hope to put a bend or two in the rod.

Eddie

Sandy Nelson

Re: Summer building
« Reply #35 on: 06/05/2020 at 19:01 »
Nice reel  :z16

Looks to be an awesome outfit, can’t wait to see a few fish pics and see just what you chase with them. Redfish are 3rd on my bucket list yet to tick
Enjoy :z18

Sandy

Sandy Nelson

Re: Summer building
« Reply #36 on: 16/05/2020 at 10:00 »
I got asked to build the Amber 580 for a customer.
He went for a classic Style build with red wraps, and agate with a nice spalted maple seat.










I now have my last remaining blank, a Livingston 7’ 3wt in Black Sglass in production. Have gone for a Celtic style etched reel seat. So will be quite different again. However it will be completed by next weekend, so I hope they let us go fishing soon. I’ve run out of things to make until my new range of blanks arrive at the end of June.

Sandy

Mike Barrio

Re: Summer building
« Reply #37 on: 16/05/2020 at 10:16 »
What does the 'Celtic' style reel seat look like Sandy?

Sandy Nelson

Re: Summer building
« Reply #38 on: 16/05/2020 at 10:30 »
It’s vaguely Celtic. It’s also one I got as a one off, which I can get again if I wanted.

Nice cork too in a simple tapered grip.


Here there the silk wetted to match the wood. You can see the etching better too



So a wee bit different, but rather smart I thought

Mike Barrio

Re: Summer building
« Reply #39 on: 16/05/2020 at 10:33 »
Looks nice  :z16

Euan Innes

Re: Summer building
« Reply #40 on: 16/05/2020 at 12:39 »
Lovely rod right there Sandy and that reel seat looks ace.

Euan

Eddie Sinclair

Re: Summer building
« Reply #41 on: 16/05/2020 at 15:18 »
Looking good Sandy, love the Celtic reel seat.

Eddie

Eddie Sinclair

Re: Summer building
« Reply #42 on: 16/05/2020 at 15:19 »
Looking good Sandy, love the Celtic reel seat.

Eddie

Kerry Jordan

Re: Summer building
« Reply #43 on: 17/05/2020 at 20:36 »
Can you get a Rangers reel seat?
😉

Euan Innes

Re: Summer building
« Reply #44 on: 17/05/2020 at 23:52 »
Is the rod not blue enough?????

Euan

 




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