When it comes to making custom fishing rods, Barry Weaver employs many skills. Weaver alternates among being a woodworker, an engineer, a lathe operator, a technician and an assembler. And when it ...

A custom rod is made from scratch through a hands-on machining and fabrication process. The video follows the work involved ...

The responsive upper portion of the blank should make it easier to work these smaller offerings without introducing excessive ...

The man on the other end of the phone was noticeably hesitant, perhaps even a little embarrassed. He had spent 34 years in the quiet, comfortable background of the sport-fishing industry, most ...

In this alter-auto world we live in, there are basically three types of people building/driving custom rods: those that do it for the pure love; those that do it for ego or recognition; and those that ...

It was familiar fishing advice in an unusual setting. Because I wasn’t standing on a boat, but in the shop of Snake River Custom Rods owners Ricky and Goldie Prieto. And the line I was keeping tight ...

When SEMA was established in 1963, those letters stood for Speed Equipment Manufacturing Association. A big part of the new organization's focus was on the hot rod aftermarket, and that was still the ...

BACK IN MAY, I drove to Yarmouth, Maine, to visit the Maine Fly Co. I was there to pick up a custom fly rod they’d made for me and to go fishing with owner and founder Jeff Davis. I expected to find a ...

Back at the turn of the millennium, Harley-Davidson decided to attack a new segment. And it didn’t settle for lesser ones but went for the muscle bike scene where only the toughest of the toughest get ...

It's been eight years already since American motorcycle maker Harley-Davidson pulled the plug on the V-twin racing street custom (VRSC) range. That's enough time for most people to have almost ...