First Day

so i had to start my project a little early because i was told that i would have a hard time finishing a fishing rod in the time given (72 hours).

I instantly fell in love with this project. As soon as i saw that blank rod i new this was gona be really cool! 1. The first thing I did was to clean the blank graphite rod. gettin all the unwanted dust, and tape remnince off. 2. now i had no idea that the butt end of a fishing rod was not all one big cork but mutiple little pieces. so i spent the next hour..hour and a half just sittin by the trash can fying the inside of the corks. each one was diffront than the other and the rod tapers from botton to top...not the easiest thing to do... 3. after that was done i had to glue all the pieces on to the rod. 4 i learned how to attach the eye loops the string goes thru.

3 hours of work last sat ... may 1,

after letting the cork glue set i had to shape the handle... altho this is very simple for come reason cork doesn't sand like wood and it took forever....the best way to do this i found was to take little pieces of sand paper (rough) and just wrap it around the cork. use one hand to apply pressure to the sand paper and the other hand to spin the rod.

5 hours last night and today may 9-10