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but ramp
Posted by: mike johnson (---.dhcp.knwc.wa.charter.com)
Date: April 24, 2011 11:22AM

i noticed in looking at some pics at the top of the handle it was built up like a ramp.i guess to show off the butt wrap more.how is this done???and are these rods working rods?my concern is will this crack from the handle? i would like to do a rod with this on it..(im new to seeing all this trick stuff you guys do and all the new ideas.ive built many rods but i wonder if some of these trick looking rods are art-show rods or fishable rods.? thanks

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Re: but ramp
Posted by: Herman Knott (---.static.acsalaska.net)
Date: April 24, 2011 03:30PM

Mike I have been building ramps now about 2 years now and have had no failures at all the ramps stand up exelent.
The first rod i built with a ramp was a halibut rod for myselfe and that rod has cought atleast 50 halibut nt that time including a 245# and no problums.
I use pro=bond

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Re: but ramp
Posted by: Raymond Adams (72.22.250.---)
Date: April 24, 2011 05:55PM

In no way can an epoxy ramp undermine the integrity of any rod.

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

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Re: but ramp
Posted by: mike johnson (---.dhcp.knwc.wa.charter.com)
Date: April 24, 2011 07:58PM

so ramps are made from epoxy???

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Re: but ramp
Posted by: John M. Hernandez (---.socal.res.rr.com)
Date: April 24, 2011 08:31PM

I have built them from epoxy, cork, eva and corktape. The epoxy or rod bond is IMO the best result and like Herman I have never had a problem with either.

Tight lines,

John Hernandez
SoCal

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Re: but ramp
Posted by: Steve Buchanan (69.168.36.---)
Date: April 27, 2011 11:05AM

I have been making my ramps by wrapping the same as anything else. Sometimes I stop after a few layers and apply CP just to keep the thread from falling down the ramp. Works great.... been doing it for about 5 years now with good results. I hardly ever buy hosels anymore. I just wrap a ramp.... it works.

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