Well, after waiting so long for the rod. It turned out to be a badly built rod. I was pretty disappointed, and let him know about it.

He felt so bad, that he took a rod out of his personal collection, and sent it to me. I love it. Here's when it was for sale, and he bought it. It was still unfished when I got it with the plastic still on the grip. It's not on the grip now. These are getting pretty hard to find now. Paul didn't make that many rods. This one has the PHY Midge taper. a really sweet small stream rod.

The pictures had strange lighting, and makes the cane look blotchy. It person it's a dark brown, and really nice to look at.

http://www.vintageflytackle.com/prod...d-63-2-2-4wt-1