Some Added Bling

[clayton86]

One of my good friends asked me to add some bling to his Abu vendetta. He wanted some abalone inlay, mermaid decal and skull and crossbones decal.

First I started with the abalone and threw in a JTOB wrap to spruce it up a little pretty easy wrap I wish I would have remembered the original silver band on the rod and added my own after the JTOB to make it look even but I forgot and noticed afterwards.

Then the mermaid went over top of the abalone not my choice but it didn't look as bad as I thought it would with te red abalone and red hair mermaid.

Then the skull and crossbones went just under the stripper guilde on the top of the blank

It was fun experimenting with the abalone and some simple trim wraps to spice up the rod my first jtob took like a half hour trying to figure out the spacing and what not the second went much faster. Abalone was neat also I got some left to play with.

[FD.]

nice job on the abalone.  It can be a bear.  

 

I put that same skull and cross bones on a rod for Nicole.  She also bought the eyes that I glued in.  We call it the Akmed, the dead terrorist, rod.

 

[clayton86]

The abalone was a bit tricky the cardboard backing came off without the sticky part so I couldn't tell what was now my front and back. Had to scramble for a knife to try and peel the sticky backing and then guess which I got wrong so now there is a 1/8 gap on one side. It cracked a little also but not terrible the epoxy hid it well.

[Batson]

nice bling!! Great wraps! 

[.ghoti.]

Nice job with the olive branch. Looks a heck of a lot better than my first attempt.

[Ozark_Basser]

How did you get the epoxy to ramp up to the grip so well? Is there a winding check under it?

[clayton86]

There were factory winding checks.

I like the olive branch trim I did a couple on the rod I just built for myself. Still trying to get the hang of it and had a few ideas to alter it and spruce it up some more just gotta run some test wraps on old arrow shafts to see how it looks.

[Ozark_Basser]

Oh okay gotcha. I tried an olive branch on the hook keeper for my build. It ended up being haggard so I said screw it lol. Yours definitely looks better than mine did.