I have no experience with these blanks. Can anyone fill me in (especially for S5F 9064)???

Ive built on the spinning and casting blanks they are sweet, the people who have them love them.

"Although my questions may seem simple to some, not asking them would make me simple."

My personal favorite walleye rods are built on the 5S60LF blank. You'll love them. Super light, super sensitive, especially when used with zero stretch line.

Skip

I built a 6' SCV for a friend when they first came out several years ago. I liked the feel of of it so much that I got one for myself ( one piece Med Light 6' ) I built a 13'"Tennessee handle for it and I tape my Shamano Stradic1000 to it with a couple strips of light, half inch, waterproof adhesive tape. Very light weight. I put SIC guides on it. The stripper is a #25. I did this before I knew about the Concept Guide System. It is my extremely sensitive and I love to use it jigging for walleyes in Lake of the Woods. It's got some backbone too. As Jim said, " They are sweet ". Next winter I plan to strip it down and and put some high frame guides on it in a Concept manner. I'm sure I'll just be 'splitting hairs' on the improvement I'll get but that blank deserves the best. Have fun!

I've built probably 25 bassrods on the SCV's. Love them all. My 7'0"MLF spinning rod weights 3.5oz finished with a split grip, nub forgrip and SIC's. You can fish all day and not get tired. They are extremely sensitive...I put them right up there with the Loomis GLX although some may argue with me about that. They are also very tough rods. They can take alot of abuse. The only weakness was the green paint which wore off fairly easy. The new 05 models are gloss brown instead of matte green. Not sure if I like that but the blanks are the same.

Daniel: It's been reported on another board that the new, brown SCV blanks are not the same as the old, green ones. Some details were given re change in the technology, and that the new blanks have different weights and slightly faster actions. If you compare the specifications (butt diameters, blank weights, etc.) given in the 2004 and 2005 catalogs, you will see that the blanks have indeed changed. Whether these changes are for the better or not remains to be seen. I did very much like the old models.

I've built several tournament winning rods both for walley and smallmouth bass, using the SCV in my region. Professional guides also love and baby them. The performance based on the light weight and techincal features built into these top notch graphite blanks makes them second to none in my opinon and those of many expert anglers. Do one up for a sweet spinning rod with concept guides setup using those new Titan or tichrome ATC guides and nice Avid or shimano Stradic spin reel and you've got something. For the baitcasing setup, go with similar high quality guides like the new ATC performance and spiral wrap on the rod for all day casting ease and fish handling will be excexceptional.

Rich Garbowski
Richard's Rod & Reel

These are great to fish with. Problem is that the blank walls are very thin to make the blanks that light so they are quite brittle. The incidence of those rods breaking so far has been just a little less than the Loomis IMX series. So, they aren't the toughest rods you can get, but they are great so long as you respect them and use them as they're intended. IE don't try to flip big fish into the boat with the light spinning models. Cheers.