I found a $20 digital mini/pocket scale which weighs to 300g in tenths of a gram, and up to 10.58 oz in 100ths of an oz.
Might need to weigh guides in bunches and take an average.

Besides guide weight, i'm interested in seeing how much weight epoxys, threads and finish add to the weight of a finished rod.

www.toplinedigitalscales.com
link to 'mini & pocket' scales

RB

Robert,
I also recently bought a small digital jewelery/reloading scale to weigh guides and also the thread and epoxy. I cut the thread and epoxy off of several old rods and found that the thread and epoxy typically weighs about half as much as the guides. I would be interested if you get much different results.

Lettuce know the weights you come up with. I have a scale too but have never taken the time to strip and weigh the materials. It has been my contention that an uderwrap makes little difference in weight. I am curious exactly how much more weight a single layer of thread (the underwrap) add to a rod.

Lou

Robert,

Your email address is hidden so I can't contact you direct. At your convenience please email me at
Hank@OnTheRocksFishing.com I would like to talk to you about your new scale. Thanks



Hank
On The Rocks Fishing
Wells, ME.

I was planning weighing the components and rod at different stages in the build, to try and get an average wrap weight per guide.
I know there will be a lot of variance in the overall weights...... thickness of finish and amount of bond used in the reel seat application, as well as total number of guides used...etc.

I can and do keep my thread wraps to a minimum, as well as applying 3 thin coats of FCLite.

I have 5 rods in the works and will be making notes....
RB

Robert,
I think that you may run into problems trying to weigh your wraps using that technique. The blank and the guides are going to weigh a couple of orders of magnitude more than a wrap will weigh. I think that you will need a very accurate scale and at least four digits of resolution which is more than any of the inexpensive scales that I have seen have.

Again --- for any one who wishes I will have two scales with me in Charlotte. One is a "coarse" measurement scale (250grams / 8.8 oz at
.1 grams granularity). The second digital scale is a smaller, more accurate one that will provide accurate measures down to sub-carat
.01 scale. Given some time I may do two or four measured wraps. Size A thread underwrap and guide wrap with color preserver; size A underwrap and guide wrap without color preserver; size A guide wrap (no underwrap) with cp and size A guide wrap without color preserver - all using the same amount (as close as I can get it) of epoxy. But I'm running out of time before the show .

Robert,

Which model did you get and how long did it take to get it?

David Banaka

Emory, I see where you are going....I may need to measure in rod sectons....
Thanks for the insight....

David,
I got the Escali Liberta Digital Pocket Scale - 300g x 0.1g (1/10th gram)


RB

David, 5 days to Seattle.

How accurate is your $20 scale? I've got one that cost about 3 times that and it's still not very reliable at the lighter end of the scale - needs a little weight to get it to start to read. The most accurate scale I've found is a 500 grain powder measure - and I usualy weigh multiple quantites of the same item to get a "good average".