Ever see those exposed double reel seats with this blank exposed so you can wrap your fingers around the exposed blank. To make one of these yourself with a standard triger seat ior exposed one just take your real seat and cut through it as close to the triger as you can. Next do the same thing at the front of the hood just leave about 1/4 of it in front of the hood so that reel foot of you reel can rest on it and there you go.