Hi all , here are some photos of my first marbled rod , it is a Spinal series 2 Tuna, 300 gram , I did find it a little bit tricky , and have a bit of fine tuning to do , the pigment is from Bullards ,

Thanks Sam , I now have even more respect for Dave of Arm Breaker Rods , I spent many hours of practice to get to the stage of doing a rod , and tried a lot of different pigments , so far the best is what I used on the rod, it is from Bullards Internationl and they have a big colour range , and I see no reason you can not use it on your lures mixed in with your top coat of clear , they use the same sort of micra pigment in auto spraying , as for price it is cheap , as a little goes a long way . I already have my next rod planned . I am going to do a flame theme . but I will do some test pieces first ,                 Ian

Sweet rod Ian, those metalic pigments look great.  Did you do the silver streaks as a second coat in clear finish or straight in with blue while it was wet?

ReelAppealLures wrote: Nice work Ian, is the marbling process you used similar to that of the video on Mudhole? How much are the pigment/s to buy? And do they come in a set of colours?

If you (or anyone else) want to try some you're welcome to have some of mine for free - I've got yellow, red, blue, black and white in 1oz pots, no metallic though.  You only need very tiny amounts so there's no way I can get through my supplies.  Marbeling is relatively easy but I find it pretty hard to consistently get the same look depending on the viscosity of the finish, thickness e.t.c. but you can just practice on old rods first.