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Billy Vivona's custom rod building resume
2000- Learned to wrap rods via Dale Clemens books 2001-2 - Presenter at Rodcrafter seminars (Dec Wrapping, VisualWrap tips and tricks) 2004 - Started The NERBs with Mike Joyce - First NERBs Gathering in January, July in Mass, November in NJ 2005 - Hosted 2 Decorative Wrap classes - attended ICRBE in Charlotte, part of the Mudhole booth with Dave Boyle to promote VisualWrap 2006 - Put The NERBs artwork on display with a booth at the Charlotte ICRBE - released the pamplet Decorative Wraps 2007 - authored the book, Decorative Wraps - launched The NERBs website - consulted with Lamar on the formulation of Chromaseal CP and ThreadMaster epoxy 2008 - attended the 1st West Coast RodBuilding Show with a NERBs booth along with Sean Endres - began woking with Seeker on a project to design specialized blanks for North East fishing 2009 - seminar presenter at the ICRBE (Decorative Grips) - released 5 models of the Seeker Hercules blanks for Inshore SW and Tuna Jigging 2010 - seminar presenter at the ICRBE (Decorative Grips, Decorative Wraps) - represented Seeker at the Somerset, NJ show with John Nappo from Trophy Tackle - released 5 models of Seeker Hercules Factory rods - columnist for Rodmaker Magazine - seminar presenter at the Mudhole Open House 2011 - seminar presenter at the ICRBE (Decorative Wrap basics & advanced) - Instructor at Mudhole's rod building classes (NJ, Seattle, San Diego) - Designed the Hercules Super Tog blank - 2 Hercules custom rods built for customers broke IGFA World Records 2012 - AMTAK Distributor - ThreadMaster Distributor - 2012 ICRBE Seminar Presenter (Decorative Grips)
