Anyone have any experience with these rod blanks? Also known as Graphite USA aka GUSA dual helix rod blanks.

Made in the USA, reasonably priced, good warranty. I'm wondering if they could be a good replacement for the SCII or SCIII blanks I used to build rods on?

Any input and/ or experience with these? Thanks!

I've used quite a few of them, they are small diameter heavy wall blanks, but many are that way now, so I'm not so sure there is the small weight disparity there used to be in the lighter powered blanks. They have had saltwater grahite rods that survive the worst you can throw at them for maybe 4 decades.
Back in the earlier days they had blanks on the ground for you to have fun stomp and jump on, and photos of the full sized Bronco driving over their blanks.
Have you seen the Charkbait videos on Youtube? They may help you some. Their 711 swimbait rods are very nice and very versatile, I'm going to get some of those blanks.



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 02/17/2019 10:51AM by Spencer Phipps.

They were good blanks. I still have a few. nicely finished. I think they stopped production back in the early 2000's.

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You can still get all the freshwater and saltwater blanks, along with the new blank designs from the Australian market.

As many are aware most of the RodGeeks blanks are SC II St.Croix blanks , they don't offer SC III blanks at this time but if there is a demand they will . SC II , SC IV and St. Croix labeled blanks in the SC V are offered by RodGeeks at this time. Their S glass models are ridiculously popular .


Spencers comment below terrifies me lol.

" They are small diameter heavy wall blanks, but many are that way now, so I'm not so sure there is the small weight disparity there used to be in the lighter powered blanks. They have had saltwater grahite rods that survive the worst you can throw at them for maybe 4 decades"

It's extremely unfortunate that some manufacturers have decided to start manufacturing small diameter thicker walled graphite blanks and the reason they have went in this direction is because there are still thousands of anglers who still don't have a clue how to handle , treat, fish and transport these super high performance fishing tools .

Manufacturers may claim they're still high performance and i'm sure many are quite good but logic, basic common sense & one on one comparisons prove otherwise. Any graphite blank that is said to be exceptionally durable & can take a beating tells me to stay as far away as possible lol.

Rod ; United Composites is now owned by Randy Penny. Randy was the shop foreman and blank designer at Seeker in the past. He has owned United Composites for several years now and is producing excellent blanks. Many are new designs. I would suggest you give them a call and ask which of their blanks fits your needs.

United Composites UC 703 at 10-17lb line 1/4-3/4 oz lure 5 tip .55 butt 2oz weight on paper looks very similar to St Croix SCIII 70mf in butt and weight specs. Everything else is subjective though such as action and line. This is where CCS measurements would come in really handy.

i own 4 of their fly rods, 1 trout rod, 5 various power bass rods, and 2 saltwater rods, all have been great, durable rods.
The fly rods are pretty much my go to rods for fly ins to Alaska, etc. if a rod can't take banging around in the bottom of the boat with other rods, taking an occasional fly strike, used to fend off attacking terns, and brush popping, it is of little use broken over 300 mile from the closest tackle store let alone fly shop.