Personal Rod Build - Mad-Swirl

When production rods are not enough, it's time to go custom. Come share your experiences building and/or ordering a custom rod and tell us if you'll ever go back to off the shelf.
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KyLakeLunker
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Personal Rod Build - Mad-Swirl

Post by KyLakeLunker » Sun Jul 06, 2014 1:32 pm

Here's a dry fitting of a rod I'm building for myself on a bushido blank. It has my signature mad-swirl grips and seat. This will eventually get some thread in the split grip and foregrip areas. I've tweaked the photo, but the actual colors of the rod and grips/seat are true to life. I do not add the effects to them. In the sun light this has a cool ghosting effect with the basecoat I used.
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Re: Personal Rod Build - Mad-Swirl

Post by jimmyb » Sun Jul 06, 2014 10:11 pm

can you share a bigger pic or link to bigger pic?

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Post by IlliniDawg01 » Sun Jul 06, 2014 10:40 pm

A little gaudy for my taste, but I know a lot of guys that would go bonkers of a rod that. Impressive work.

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Post by KyLakeLunker » Mon Jul 07, 2014 12:01 am

Sorry about that. I stink with posting pictures on this site because of the size limits. Here is a link to my facebook page where you can see the full size. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid ... =1&theater

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Post by KyLakeLunker » Mon Jul 07, 2014 12:04 am

IlliniDawg01 wrote:A little gaudy for my taste, but I know a lot of guys that would go bonkers of a rod that. Impressive work.

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I know what you mean. You either like this or you don't. There's really no in between. I like these colors for my person builds as opposed to the brighter ones. My younger crowd seems to like these a lot more than the my older customers.

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Re: Personal Rod Build - Mad-Swirl

Post by Batson-Brands » Thu Aug 28, 2014 1:19 am

Nice build! It looks great!!

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