Perhaps I'm being obtuse, but I am a little unsure about the activation process for diamondite. I have read the instructions and scanned previous posts on diamodite, but I'm not sure if I need to heat the finish with the incandesant light until it reaches the desired temperature and then remove the light, or if the light needs to stay on the finish until it is cured. The directions say "...holding the finish at that tempreture..." which seems to indicate keeping the lights on. But then, how would you light a 9 foot fly rod, for instance? Seems to me that would take a lot of bulbs. Thanks for the help in adavance!

I keep the light ON the finish for one hour. If you don't have a bank of lights or a heat box, just do one or two wraps at a time with the light.

The product will cure with or without a light. You just speed up the process with an elevated temperature.

Tim Campbell
Swifty Manufacturing
(626) 963-1142

One word of caution using lights on finish, they attract every flying insect in the area. We had some mild weather and I had the window open in my building room, and found out the hard way, maybe we should sticky a thread on all the disasters weve had rod building, I've sure got a few to share.

Thanks to all for the input. When it comes to a drying box, I am assuming that you construct the rod as usual on a wrapper, and then transfer it to the drying box. Are there any suggestions on doing this without bumping the wet rod during the transfer? In spite of being careful, accidents do happen, and I would hate to ruin a rod trying to get it into the box.
Are there any less expensive alternatives to rolling rod supports?
Thanks