Hello,
So I bought a fiberglass blank...and I understand that they can take sets...the blank I got has complex turns in it...almost serpentine...any recommendations on how to correct it?
Thanks,
Ken

Hi,

UGH!!!

Wrap it and go fishing!

A major manufacture rep told me if a warp in one direction then turn the fiberglass rod/blank 180* and lean it against the wall in a warm room.

Capt Neil Faulkner

If it is that bad - sounds like it ? - send it back

Bill - willierods.com

I know if you bend a f/glass blank to get it into a car and leave it on a hot day it will stay bent.
Probably hard to rectify a dog-leg bend that way though.
Look on the bright side, you're sure to amuse any onlookers while you wrap it.

Ken,
One way that works for some folks is to suspend the blank from the tip.
Then, preferably use a full length oven to uniformly heat the rod, while the rod is suspended from the tip. The heat will allow the blank to reform to the straight blank that is generally desirable.

Some folks use heat guns to do the same thing. However, it is much more difficult to get the nice uniform heating that can be had by a full length oven.

If you happen to have a vertical drying box, and turn up the heat you can replicate the first situation to take care of the issue.

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However, if another "straight blank" were available, I would either return or scrap the blank that you have and move on.
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Good luck and be straight.

Roger

I have an attic above my garage. In the past, I have hung some old bamboo rods by the tip and on others, I have leaned them 'against the bow' and just left them there. Of course, I wasn't in any hurry to use them. John

John,
That works well in the heat of summer, but it is certainly less satisfactory in the freezing cold of an unheated garage in the dead of a northern winter.

Roger

p.s.
If you do hang a rod - any rod by the tip - DO NOT - hang it by the tip top or line guide tip at the end of the rod.

The reason for this is that most of the time, the hanging line will end up on the extreme end of the tip top. So, now you have a severe bending force on the tip of the blank itself which tends to force the tip away from a straight position.

Rather use a line with a double loop in the line. Then, hang one loop in a slip knot off one side of the tip, and hang the other loop in a slip knot off the other side of the tip. Then, tie the two loops together and hang on a nail such that there is equal hanging force on both sides of the tip. This will keep the tip of the blank itself being deformed by the hanging of the blank itself.


p.s.
Don't ask me how I know this!!!!!!!!!

Good luck
Roger