when i become addicted as i think i almost am to rod building what will i do with all the rods i build i know that i can sell them but who will buy them

I can't buy them I have been rod building for 3 weeks now . I am half way through my third rod.
I think i'll just do more fishing.

There is a market for custom rods, but it's not a very large one. And, it's just like any other market - some folks look for a "deal" with others looking only for the very finest workmanship and performance they can get.

But if you'd rather just build them and not worry about selling them, surely as a fishermen you realize that you can't have too many rods. And, you can always donate or give them to local charity groups for @#$%&, or provide friends and family with rods.

...........

Show your rods to friends, family, etc. and you will probably get some interest... If you truly love building, let them buy all the materials and you supply the labor. That way you get to keep building w/o spending any money. You may get good enought to start selling them for profit.

Stand them neatly in corners as you can can get more in a corner that way! I haven't and I'm about to run out of corners and corner space.

Stan Grace
Helena, MT
"Our best is none too good"

Stan, move your desk to the middle of the wall and you can stack them on both sides of it and free up one more corner... :)

Putter
Williston, ND

Stan,
I've got a couple corners that I'd be glad to loan you. Just bring your extras to Charlotte and I'll take them home and put them in a corner for you!!!

Mike (Southgate, MI)
If I don't want to, I don't have to and nobody can make me (except my wife) cuz I'm RETIRED!!

Stephen,
Putter and Mike are just two among many of those who will sacrifice their time to offer solutions to your rod building problems. Consider yourself fortunate to have discovered this forum.

Stan Grace
Helena, MT
"Our best is none too good"

I built a rod for a co-worker who decided just before I was ready to give it to him that he no longer wanted it. I was fortunate that someone on @#$%& wanted it enough to pay what I considered "cost". Materials and my time went for a grand $125. There isn't much market there. He did email me that the rod was beautiful, and when he cast it he thought it cast like a $600 rod. I figured that if he thought it was like a $600 rod, he probably doesn't own one. LOL! But it made me feel good that a stranger was happy with it.

I would think you'll end up like most of us hobby builders, with too many to fish with. I do like to take mine out of the tubes and look at them once in a while. ;o) (I have an even dozen, with two new Scotts and a G. Loomis and Fly Logic, all waiting to become like $600 rods. Well, actually one of the Scott's will be pretty close to that!)

Dave