Hello Rodbuilders!

I'm brand new, just pulled from the box to this awesome forum!

I'm one of the few (Two or three) "rod builders" (Amateur and begginer, of course...) in Colombia, South America. Just for fun and to develope my own designs, but eventually some friends come to me with their broken rods to fix.

I'm now in front of a new challenge: I want to use the handle of a broken rod to make a new rod, but I don't know how to pull out the piece of graphite blank that is inside the cork grip and the reel seat.

The rod was a spinning G-Loomis, ultralight, and the handle is something very likely to reutilize as I haven't seen one similar for sale anywhere.

I'll appreciate very much your advice.

Carlos.

One way to use a rear grip from a broken rod is to cut the rod through the reel seat about 3 inchs in front of the grip, clean off the old reel seat bushings etc. and glue that bare portion of the of the old rod inside the end of the new blank and finish as you normally would. Jesse

You'll play heck removing those pieces from the old blank without damaging them. Sometimes immersion in boiling water will do the trick. Other times, the pieces simply would have to be cut off, making them unuseable.

You'll probably have to go with Jesse's advice which means you'll be limited as to what blank you can slip inside the old one. Or just scrap what you have now and start from scratch.

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Another thing you could try, which I've seen suggested on here is to find yourself a piece of brass or aluminum tubing just large enough to fit over the butt end of the blank, if you can guage that, then cut teeth on one side of the tubing like a saw (Make them pretty sharp), then chuck it up in your drill and start cutting right down over the piece thats broken. The saw that you have made will use the blank as a guide. Make sure you keep pulling the tubing out as you saw and dump out the waste to keep a clean path. It's just a suggestion I've heard on here before. I haven't used it myself YET!!!!!

Bill in WV

Personally I would not waste my time on a project like that. You could hurt yourself trying to drill out the old broken piece. You can build a new rod a lot faster than it takes to salvage the old piece. However, I don't know what your situation is in Columbia as far as getting parts is concerned.
Saludos de Texas, Eliseo Mendiola

Carlos,
Go to the Custom Tackle site to the left and see if the parts your talking about are Wiebe reelseat parts. They have some kits there and pictures of what they look like. They are no longer made but some of the parts are still available and the black graphite pieces are easy to clean out with a drill bit usually, leaving you only the cork pieces to build or buy and they are available from a few sources. We'll help you find everything if we just know what it was. The more regular looking reelseat parts and guides were mostly all Pac Bay stuff.