Posted on January 04 2009
Few custom builders I know are as critical of their own work as Mark Malczynski of Gypsy Rod Works, so when he messaged me a "teaser" photo of a recent build I took notice.
Gypsy had been asked to build on an eight foot three piece six weight McFarland blank by Boo of the Fiberglass Flyrodders board. Boo's one request was to find something other than red or brown for the wraps since he already had two McFarland's with candy apple red wraps and wanted something different for this build.
After wrapping and epoxying the entire rod in Gudebrod medium green, Mark was really dissatisfied with the color, and striped the rod down to start over.
What he found in the bottom of his thread box was a spool of Granger green YLI thread and the results are nothing short of stunning.
If your interested in working with Mark on a future custom fly rod build he can be contacted at gypsyrodworks@yahoo.com.
Gypsy had been asked to build on an eight foot three piece six weight McFarland blank by Boo of the Fiberglass Flyrodders board. Boo's one request was to find something other than red or brown for the wraps since he already had two McFarland's with candy apple red wraps and wanted something different for this build.
After wrapping and epoxying the entire rod in Gudebrod medium green, Mark was really dissatisfied with the color, and striped the rod down to start over.
What he found in the bottom of his thread box was a spool of Granger green YLI thread and the results are nothing short of stunning.
If your interested in working with Mark on a future custom fly rod build he can be contacted at gypsyrodworks@yahoo.com.
