A friend of mine sent me some ferruled bamboo sections and an old pitted & cracked Fenwick cork grip with an attached (banged up) anodized gold aluminum reel seat. The grip had a female ferrule in it, so I used the ferrule to attach the grip to a drill and sanded the grip down to a smoother western style. I used the cork dust and mixed it with yellow carpenter's glue to make a paste and fill the pits and cracks. I used a single edge razor blade to back drag the flats on the two sections that I thought would make a nice little boo stick. Then I wrapped new guides with bright blue wrapping thread and finished the wraps with Flex-Coat. I epoxied the grip and reel seat in place and then drip coated both sections with polyurethane. It's 5 1/2 feet long and probably a 2 or 3 weight. I think it's going to be a fun rod for small mountain brookies.
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