I have done a lot fo referbishes on rods and have refinished the blanks with a urithane based coating. They all come out great and I have has not problems. Lamiglas has the polished graphite finish. Do they put any kind of coating over the polished graphite?

Thanks,

David Banaka

CYS does the same thing....no finish at all. It's bare carbon sanded very fine then buffed....very nice neutral finish.


Andy Dear
Lamar Fishing Products

Andy,

What do they polish it with? Do you know? Thanks for the information.

David Banaka

I am buiding a lot of rods on the "polished" blanks. I love the effect of the surface. It looks good with most any color thread. When the rods are completed I wipe them down with a piece of cheesecloth with West Marine Star Brite Boat Polish with Teflon. You will remove a small amount of the residual from the polishing process and end up with a very nice blank. I like them because they do not have a finish on them to scratch. They look good after a long bout of heavy use.

I have some flexible sanding sticks with 1500 polishing grit for wet sanding. I have used these to strip the finish from a few older blanks that have come in for repair and clean up. I used them on badly scratched blanks. I would not try to manually do this with no rod wrapper to turn the rod at high speed. I find it easier and basically looks better to polish out the scratches than to try and cover them up.

Gon Fishn



Edited 4 time(s). Last edit at 07/10/2006 03:05PM by Bill Stevens.