Hello, I am fairly new to the site, have mainly just browsed until now. Anyway, my question is if there are is much difference in the wieght of casting reel seats. I am looked for the lightest (or one of the lightest) available. I have noticed Daiwa uses some that appear to be very lightweight on their rods.

Does anyone know where I can get something similar to these or at least lighter than the average Fgui seat etc. ? Thanks in advance

The decrease in total weight and increased area of exposed surface for additional hand contact are important to bassers. Fuji Blank exposed seat - Rodmaker Article on RF Reel Seats - Dremel Tool - Dremel Cylindrical Drum Sanding Wheel - Grit Stix - Patience - Make it weigh as little as you want. After you butcher a few like this:

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Then you will go out and buy a variable speed scrool saw and an belt sander to make the good stuff quickly.

Good word Bill!! I'll put out this suggestion for debate. A graphite skeleton with cork insert. Very light and does the job.

Bill in WV



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The Diawa ones you saw are probably made exclusively for Diawa and not available to the general public. A lot of really cool reel seats are like that....too bad, because I've also seen a bunch of them I'd love to be able to buy.

Steve Buchanan

Steve's Custom Rods

William Bartlett Wrote:
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> Good word Bill!! I put out this suggestion for
> debate. A graphite sceleton with cork insert.
> Very light and does the job.
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> Bill in WV


Yep ... the Super Sticker. Bob Mc at Custom Tackle carries them ... light, comfortable and high quality cork.

Jim,

That wasn't what I was alluding to. But I agree with you. I've used the Weibe brand and they're great seats. I was talking about regular (Fuji, Pac Bay, etc) skeletons with a cork insert instead of wood or acryllic / poly. OK, after rereading Chris's original post, I see he's asking about casting seats. I thought he was talking about light spinning. So the obvious choice would be the Super Sticker seat with the cork instead of wood insert. Although, I have read a post on here somewhere where they stated that the trigger portion of the assembly is a little heavy. Didn't seem so to me though.

Bill in WV

I would listen to Bill Stevens.
I perform thison a lot of rods and between the decreased wieght of removing material and the increased contact directly to the blank. You will end up with a rod that will transmit vibrations to you hands better then the other suggestions.

Good stuff Bill. I was just looking at a std DPSH seat a few days ago and considering chopping out the middle all together, leaving 2 separate pieces.

So long as it isn't caried to extremes, you can also go with an undersized seat and ream it out. I'm actually looking to do that on my next project, using an adjustable blade hand reamer. Would cut weight, tho I'm actually considering it to minimize/eliminate arboring and to lower the reel just a tad.

And Chris, have you looked at the plate style reel seats? They are pretty minimal.



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Something Dave is alluding to.
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Yeah Mick, like that! Sorta.:-)
If you start with an undersize seat and reamed it out tho, that reel would come down and the gap between it and the blank could nearly disappear.

Mick take a new look at your picture link and read the comments- this is serious business!!

The little Threadless Matrix caught it's 100 redfish yesterday and this one was over 27 inches - all still in place!

Gon Fishn

Thanks for the replies, guys. I do like Bill's idea and played around with it last nighta nd seemed to work pretty well. Thanks a bunch. Tight lines

Chris