Tiki RodsCape Coral, FL
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Six rods with teal cross wraps over black blanks and cork grips, each carrying the Tiki Rods decal

Custom builds

Built around how you fish

Nothing here comes off a rack. You tell us where you fish and what you are chasing, and the rod gets specified around your answer.

What you choose

Six decisions, and then it is yours

Most of these you do not have to answer on your own. Come to us with the water and the target species and the rest gets worked out on the phone or across the bench.

  • 01

    The blank

    Graphite, glass or a composite, picked for the length, power and action the job actually needs. This is the rod. Everything else hangs off it.

  • 02

    Guides

    Multiple brand options including Ti Forged and Virtus Unlimited. Single foot or double, conventional or spiral wrapped for offshore work. Sized and spaced for the reel you are running.

  • 03

    Reel seat

    Graphite or aluminium, with the hood and trim finished to match the wrap. Split grip or full, whichever your hands prefer.

  • 04

    Grip

    EVA foam, cork, or shrink over carbon. Length set to how you actually hold and fight a fish, not to a standard.

  • 05

    Thread and wrap

    The part that makes it yours. Solid colors, tipped and trimmed bands, cross wraps, weaves and full decorative butt sections.

  • 06

    Marbling and finish

    Marbled and splatter finishes on the blank itself, then epoxy over everything, turned until it cures clear and hard.

Recent work

Wraps that came off this bench

  • Macro of a blue and silver cross wrap laid over a blue camouflage-patterned blank

    A blue and silver cross wrap over a camo-patterned blank

  • Six rods with teal cross wraps over black blanks and cork grips, each carrying the Tiki Rods decal

    Teal cross wraps over black blanks, cork foregrips

  • A row of offshore rods with gold and black decorative wraps, oversized guides and foam grips, on a grey wood floor

    Gold and black decorative wraps on an offshore set

  • Rods standing in a shop rack, their grips wrapped in five camouflage patterns: red white and blue, black and white, blue, green, and red

    Camo grip wraps, five patterns off one bench

  • A set of rods wrapped in red thread laid out with a landing net on the marbled bench

    A full set wrapped in red, net to match

  • Four blue-wrapped rods resting on a table printed with marine artwork

    Blue wraps and double-foot guides

  • Studio close-up of a black blank with an orange cross wrap and an inlaid United States Marine Corps emblem

    A service emblem inlaid under the finish

How it runs

From first message to finished rod

  1. 01

    The conversation

    Where do you fish? What types of bait do you use? What reels and what boat are you running? The rod gets specified around your answers, not around a catalogue.

  2. 02

    Blank and hardware

    Blanks, reel seats and guides hand selected for each type of build.

  3. 03

    Guide placement

    Guides are laid out and static tested on the blank itself so the load spreads properly through the curve, then taped and checked again.

  4. 04

    The wrapper

    Every wrap is laid down by hand on the wrapper. This is where the color goes on, and where a decorative or cross wrap gets built if you asked for one.

  5. 05

    Finish and cure

    Epoxy over the thread, turned until it levels and cures hard and clear. Then it gets checked, labeled and it is yours.

Start a build

Tell us the water, the species, the reel and any colors you have in mind. A deposit holds the slot and the build starts from there.

Send the details239-671-1385