Hi,

I am looking at starting my first rod building project.

First will be a few Fly rods and then some spinning rods.

I will be ordering Toms book shortly, which will be my reference point and memory bank.

Being someone who learns better visually, I would like someone to kindly recommend a rod building DVD that shows the instructions for a fly rod and possibly multi-piece spinning rods for future projects .

I have seen many DVD's available, but none specify fly rod building in their write ups.

I have accessed the many online tutorials through the sponsors, but most I have seen so far are for one piece rods.




Thank you,

Richard

The process is the same for multi-piece as one piece rods except that when it comes
to wrapping the guides you dont need to have the sections joined unless you want to.

I think there is a "How is Made" video (or link to one) showing fly rods being built
on my website. see link in my signature.

There are also a few links to a few other "how to" sites that might have some
fly rod specific learning material.

Raymond Adams
Eventually, all things merge, and a river runs through it..

I did a DVD on building a saltwater fly rod and I think it covers all aspects of building a decent rod with the visuals you are looking for (multiple angle shots; captions etc.) .... Mudhole / American Tackle sells them

Fly Rod Building Made Easy by Art Scheck is the first book I got and the best for fly rods only. Lots of nice pictures. I don't know if it is still in print. If I were starting again I would do some thread wraping and finishing on a dowel rod. Practice will relieve a lot a anxiety when you do it for real. Mudhole has it along with quite a few other books. Build on the straightest axis and save yourself a ton of grief about spining a rod.



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The three BEST DVDS I have found are The Saltwater Fly Rod gy Ken Preston, The Graphite Fly Rod by Russ Gooding, and Handcrafting a Graphite Fly Rod by L.A. Garcia.

Dan Hogan

Thanks for all the input.

I am checking all these out now.