Bill B. Yes, Salt Water changes ALL the rules. Although I do not put any epoxy under the wraps I still do not get the wraps to lift. It may be because I wash my rods, every day, when fishing in salt water. Prolonged submersion of guides under the water, in any environment, will cause the finish to turn milky and as a minimum will need to be rewrapped. To be extra sure, in any environment, a
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Hope I did not lead you in any wrong direction. My book is now in its 20th year. Maybe it will last a little bit longer.
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Thank you for your sensible answers/comments/suggestions; straightforward; direct; no nonsense. L. A. Garcia, author, "Handcrafting a Graphite Fly Rod".
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Thank you for your comment about Tom Morgan. Glad to know that he is still doing as well as he is. I visited with him at his home back in the 1990's. Almost got one of his planing machines. Still had the urge to take up bamboo but did not. Continued to work with graphite until 2006 when guys and gals stopped asking me to build rods for them. Glad to see that you mentioned Joe Fisher. Alw
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Bob Meiser, just signed up with RodBuilding.org. Read your post of June 13, 2008 and thought to respond. Hope you get this post. I am now living in San Antonio, Texas. Frankly, I just got tired of the cold, snow and ice of Colorado, particularly taking 2 days every spring to clean out the garage from all the gunk that built up over the winter. Here we have about 4 months of uncomfortable wea
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Some time ago I was reading comments on the RodBuilding.org site and came across my name. There was one fellow in particular who was asking about me. I tried, several times, to get registered but somehow I could not; I am now there. This is L. A. Garcia and am now living in San Antonio, Texas. Got tired of shoveling snow, scraping ice from my windshield, slipping and sliding on icy streets
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