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Nathan Tsao:
I copied this thread post from our own "Hawaii Fishing Forums" website, thought some of you guys around the globe might be interested in seeing a couple of my latest custom work for fishing from the lava rocks.

Custom #5 for Kumala808 over on Kauai. Closed wrap simple style with one pattern per outer box outlined with a little gold. Inner box has three color 20 outside-point "medallions" with many inside points being made around the center dark blue. My camera screen is busted and is taking garbage photos, cant really see this one very well, will try and get some better ones later on.


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Here are the rest of the pics of the UC100XH for Kumala and the 100XXH for Max1975.
Max has full length straight handles with X-flock over braided cord
Kumala has split grips with X-flock over sanded down EVA with a slightly shorter reelseat placement than Max's
Both guide trains are exactly the same with MNSG stripper guides followed by Ti Lowriders for runners and Ti SiC tip tops

The 100XH is an excellent "All Around" plugging rod capable of throwing both stickbaits and medium cupped poppers from 90g-150g. A perfect PE6-PE8 rod with lots of power in the back, and a tip that is just enough to work a pencil popper too.
The 100XXH is more of a heavy chugging rod that will handle the biggest poppers out there. Max wanted a rod to blast the big Lunchbox poppers, and this is one of the only 10'4" blanks out on the market that can do it effectively. A true shoreline PE10 rod, works best from 150g-230g for when you need a massive plug. If any rod can turn a huge ulua on crazy tight drag, this is it!

Kumala wanted his to be called GT Whiplash and Max1975 wanted his to be called the GT Hammer


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Underside of the rod names
 

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Custom color matching reelseat locks. These little things really work well to prevent any loosening of the hood threads!


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MNSG 40, 30, 20 Stripper guides, all reversed


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Titanium Lowriders size 16 for the top 4 running guides


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I hope you guys like em, they are so much sweeter in person than in these junk pictures (its frikken hard to take a digital camera photo when the camera screen doesnt work).
If anyone else would like to see these and some other plugging rods; Kumala and Max have been kind enough to allow me to display these at the Hawaii Fish and Dive Expo on Sunday March 10th. Anyone who wants to get a feel for them is welcome to come check them out. Just watch out for Max1975, because he will be there keeping a wickedly sharp eye out over his new rod!
Looking forward to meeting you guys in person. See you next weekend!

Ross Smith:
Nice work Nathan,

The rods look to be ferruled just above the top grip.
What length is the top section of these rods (UC100XH blank, 10ft 4 in) for transporting purposes, have you built on any 2 piece, 7ft 10in United Composites Sidewinder popping blanks.

Cheers Ross

Nathan Tsao:
Hi Ross,
The top sections for the 100 series come in at about 7'6"--7'10". They advertise them as 10' rods, but each batch i have ordered has come it between 10'4" and 10'8". And yes, the ferrules are just above the grip section, pretty much a butt joint rod. The bottoms are coming in at about 3'2" pretty consistently; plenty of room for a long reelseat placement.There is a little room to play with on the handle section though, if you built a shorter foregrip. Go with a size 22 seat for a standard grip and a size 24 for an extra long grip, since the handle is tapered not straight.

Here is a pic of another 100XH where I made a short foregrip (about 5") and did a wrap on the butt section of the ferrule:
 

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I am making another order to United Comp i the next couple weeks for a new batch of 100's and also the 7'10" series. I am planning on getting one 710XH(PE8-10) and one 710XXH(PE10-12). Once i get them built up and get a few sessions on them, i will post up a performance review of them on here. Hopefully they are a good blank, because it is so hard to find decent GT blanks out there. Very few of them have been produced so far, so we'll just have to get a few and put them through the motions before we know anything.

George Relf:
Gorgeous rods mate ... love the colour schemes.

Would love to see a few pics of both rods with some bend in it, if possible?

Have had these blanks in the back of my mind for a while.

Sam McKechnie:

--- Quote from: Nathan Tsao on March 18, 2013, 01:35:21 PM ---I am making another order to United Comp i the next couple weeks for a new batch of 100's and also the 7'10" series. I am planning on getting one 710XH(PE8-10) and one 710XXH(PE10-12). Once i get them built up and get a few sessions on them, i will post up a performance review of them on here. Hopefully they are a good blank, because it is so hard to find decent GT blanks out there. Very few of them have been produced so far, so we'll just have to get a few and put them through the motions before we know anything.

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Yep, will be really keen to hear how you find these as like you say there's very few options for the builder.

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