I was wondering if anyone knew of any blank manufacturers selling 1-piece fly rod blanks? I'm interested in building a new streamer stick.

Thanks
Matt Parsons
parsons75@gmail.com

Not sure why you would want a one piece when multi-piece perform equally and are so much more convenient to transport. Maybe I'm missing something.
I only build fly rods and almost exclusively 4 piece as that is what my clients want.

Matt,
I'm a huge fan of 1pc fly rods, and have used most of what's out there, from the Biscayne rods, Loomis, Orvis, Lamiglas, Hardy, MHX. Problem is finding blanks. Luckily, the MHX 1-pc are excellent; unluckily, it seems that Mudhole is not stocking them anymore. Last I checked, they had the 8-11wts on sale. The MHX website still shows them as part of their catalog. You might contact Mudhole or the other companies listed on the MHX website to see if they can get them for you. They were (are?) made in wts. 7-11.

Hey Matthew,
CTS will build fly rod blanks up to 7'9" in one piece.

[ctsfishing.com]

Let me know if I can help further.
Herb
U.S. Distrib CTS Blanks

Matt,
Just a follow-up here. MHole still shows the 8-10wts. on clearance. I have all three models, all great tools.
Biscayne Rod still offers their Billy Baroo 1 pc blanks in multiple weights. It's been a few years, but I remember the 7/8 to be a cannon, if perhaps a bit heavier than the more modern rods, as that blank has probably gone unchanged much in the past 10-12 years.
Lamiglas does not appear to still offer the Bugslinger line of 1pc blanks (Just as well, as they wanted almost $100 to ship the blanks). I'm not aware of any other manufacturers that offer 1pc blanks only.

Mudhole has the 8-12 wt. Lamiglas Bug Slinger blanks at 25% off.

to ship anything that long is $$$$ it don't bend so the different mail carriers charge lots of $$$$ so lets be fair about the cost to ship a one piece rod , it is not the supplier s fault they operate a business an in most times fair ,

William Sidney
AK

Thanks for the help everyone. Seems to be a very small niche market right now. The musky guys rave about them when slinging 12" streamers all day.

Bill -
If I can have a 1pc blank shipped from company A for $20, company B for $18, and can ship a 1pc rod from the Midwest to FL for under $20, there seems to be something unreasonable for another company charging 100 bucks.
I would have bought some of those blanks direct had the shipping not been so high. Now that I know that MH carries them, I'll be sure to.

On the positive side, if you build one-piece 9' fly rods you will get a lot of practice building rods.

Cost the same to ship 5, maybe even 10.