{"id":2009,"date":"2026-06-18T06:56:44","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T05:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/?p=2009"},"modified":"2026-06-18T07:16:52","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T06:16:52","slug":"the-tornado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/2026\/06\/18\/the-tornado\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tornado"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Andy the Redneck is the Sexyloops rod builder in Texas. He is a custom rod builder par excellence. The blanks are the same as the Hot Torpedo\/Hot Tortuga. We just thought \u201cTornado\u201d was more fitting for Texas\/USA!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The first 25 4\/5\/6 rods will be fitted with a buckeye burl spacer as our \u201cLaunch Edition\u201d. Every rod comes with a Zoom lesson from me. We can cover anything you like. And you also have a 1 in 666 chance of winning a 2 week fishing holiday living as a pirate.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2012\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1064-272x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"272\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1064-272x300.jpeg 272w, https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1064-929x1024.jpeg 929w, https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1064-768x846.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1064.jpeg 962w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 272px) 85vw, 272px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Drum roll. We will soon have finished rods in stock. Andy is full time so currently, even without the full range in stock (there is a Tornado 8 that can be shipped today), others are built and shipped within about 5-7 days. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">There is nothing else like this on the market. The finest blanks that I spend ages (read: years!) getting just right, assembled by one of the world\u2019s finest rod builders. Every rod is impeccable.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2010\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1066-300x226.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1066-300x226.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1066-1024x771.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1066-768x578.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1066-1536x1156.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1066-1200x903.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1066.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Email me on <a href=\"mailto:paul@sexyloops.com\">paul@sexyloops.com<\/a> or WhatsApp me +60198549552 for more information or to order yours.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>More info here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/index.php\/webshop\/list\/70\/fly-rods\">https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/index.php\/webshop\/list\/70\/fly-rods<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andy the Redneck is the Sexyloops rod builder in Texas. He is a custom rod builder par excellence. The blanks are the same as the Hot Torpedo\/Hot Tortuga. We just thought \u201cTornado\u201d was more fitting for Texas\/USA! The first 25 4\/5\/6 rods will be fitted with a buckeye burl spacer as our \u201cLaunch Edition\u201d. Every &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/2026\/06\/18\/the-tornado\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Tornado&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2013,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2009"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2017,"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009\/revisions\/2017"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}