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Rod Wrapping Practice Materials
Posted by:
Nkrumah Morgan
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Date: January 30, 2012 09:14PM
Hello All,
I am new here to your forums and brand new to wrapping rods. All of my rods are custom, but I paid for them. I am looking to get into this to start wrapping my own, and maybe wrapping some for profit down the road a bit. Working on a shoestring budget here and was wondering what materials I could use to practice wrapping and finishing on without ruining an expensive blank. I was thinking about buying some cheap dowel rods from wally world and using those to practice with. Any thoughts or cheaper practice solutions? Re: Rod Wrapping Practice Materials
Posted by:
David Gilberg
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Date: January 30, 2012 09:36PM
You can buy old fishing rods at yard sales and strip them down. Cut them into short pieces and have lots of test blanks to play with.
A good thing to make is a color wrap test strip with a band of each color thread with Color Preserver and one without CP... and also NCP thread. That will help you choose thread colors on all your future rod builds. Good luck in all your rod building adventures. David Re: Rod Wrapping Practice Materials
Posted by:
JIM MOWL
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Date: January 30, 2012 11:59PM
Unless you have some very smooth wood dowells you wont get the feel for proper packing. You can get a 7' solid fiberglass blank from Janns Netcraft for around $11 or so, I think, and you could also use portion of it to make cork reamers or razor wands later on. See their link just to the left. Ice rod blanks are cheap also.
Good Luck Re: Rod Wrapping Practice Materials
Posted by:
Garry Thornton
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Date: January 31, 2012 12:39AM
Cabela's has some very cheap Pac Bay rod kits right now.
They include everything, blank, cork, guides, thread, epoxy and finish. IMHO you might as well make something useful while you practice. Re: Rod Wrapping Practice Materials
Posted by:
roger wilson
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Date: January 31, 2012 02:37AM
Go to good will or the salvation army and you can often pick up old rods for $1 each.
Or go to your favorite fishing store. Many times, there is a barrel that is used to deposit old rods. Many times these old rods are free for the asking. Or you can go to pawn shops and often pick up an old rod for $3 or $4. Take care Roger Re: Rod Wrapping Practice Materials
Posted by:
Nkrumah Morgan
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Date: January 31, 2012 05:24AM
Thanks for the suggestions. I will go visit my local pawn shops to see what they have available. I will also look at online shops for cheap blanks and kits... Re: Rod Wrapping Practice Materials
Posted by:
Rufus Rhoden
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Date: January 31, 2012 08:07AM
I pick up lots of old broken rods just by taking a trip down to the fishing peir, pluck the broken rods out of the trash can. I use them for any practice/test wrap and also build reamers etc. Rufus Port Saint Lucie, FL Re: Rod Wrapping Practice Materials
Posted by:
Scott Kloosterman
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Date: January 31, 2012 08:35AM
I use reflective driveway markers, the type with tape at the top. $2 most anywhere and can still be used when done just more colorfull.
Scott Re: Rod Wrapping Practice Materials
Posted by:
bill boettcher
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Date: January 31, 2012 08:36AM Re: Rod Wrapping Practice Materials
Posted by:
Fred Yarmolowicz
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Date: January 31, 2012 11:23AM
Small PVC pipe is smooth like a blank. Freddwhy (Rapt-Ryte) Re: Rod Wrapping Practice Materials
Posted by:
Roger Templon
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Date: February 01, 2012 07:59PM
I use solid fiberglass arrow shafts (used for bowhunting for carp). I picked up a bunch of them cheap at an archery shop going out of business.
Rog Re: Rod Wrapping Practice Materials
Posted by:
bill boettcher
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Date: February 02, 2012 09:02AM
Whatever you get If it is not smooth enough - sand them Bill - willierods.com Sorry, only registered users may post in this forum.
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