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flex tip
Posted by: Brion Kallinen (---.702communications.com)
Date: July 04, 2005 05:19PM

I have been building rods for 7 months now. A customer asked about blanks with 'flex tip' for fly rods. What does that mean? I've never heard that term in my life.

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Re: flex tip
Posted by: Aurthur Mercer (---.proxy.aol.com)
Date: July 04, 2005 10:12PM

I know that Orvis calls their fast action rods "tip flex." Maybe that's what he's tallking about. It's just one company's term for what everybody else calls a "fast action" rod.

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Re: flex tip
Posted by: eric zamora (216.101.134.---)
Date: July 05, 2005 02:18AM

dan craft's FT series, or at least the ones i've cast, had a surprising flexible tip, for lack of a better term on my part.

eric
fresno, ca.

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Re: flex tip
Posted by: Anonymous User (---.proxy.aol.com)
Date: July 05, 2005 09:30AM

This may be the fiber glass tip section that is on some composite type rods. You can almost tie the things in knots.

Gon Fishn

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Re: flex tip
Posted by: Brion Kallinen (---.702communications.com)
Date: July 05, 2005 10:52AM

I talked to him again this morning and it is an Orvis term, like Arther says means the same as 'fast action'.

Thanks guys for the input.

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