Thanks Don, I may know the kilwell distribution outlet of which you speak, was leaning towards that anyways, will check out lamiglas. Cheers
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Hi all, a few mates want some custom rods for rock fishing( I'm talking ocean rock fishing in Sydney, Australia). They are worried graphite & carbon rods will be somewhat delicate, the rods tend to get bashed around a bit, and are leaning to glass rods. I haven't had any experience with this, so would love advice. Also what material are Tommy Farmers blanks made from? Cheers
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all sounds very good but how much will they cost? there comes a point when the extra performance is simply not worth the price. you'll all agree that SiC rings are pretty good & quite expensive. so are Fuji coing down the gold cerment road again? your thoughts!
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Thanks for the advice gentleman, i'm using snake skin under the guides & metallic thread overbind. Building a rod for a good mate & thats what he wants! Have not done this before so wish me luck, any other tips would be cool bananas, cheers.
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Just wondering if anyone knows if metallic thread is strong enough to wrap guides?
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Thanks for the advice Col, i'm new at this so need all the help i can get. I live in Sydney by the way so if there is any local stuff going on i'd love to know. Cheers and go the Blues.
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Hi all, thinking of painting some blanks, any tips? Regards Scott Clarke.
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Thanks Mr Kirkman, Having just started this rod building caper most of what you said has to go into the ' i have no idea of what your talking about basket', however i shall learn more as time permits. i bought your book bye the way, very helpful it is. i will get another blank or just build the 7' one, i was mainly wondering if there was a simple way of calculating line rating drop. which it seem
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thanks for the advice, i will get another blank.
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i was wondering if anyone could tell me how much of the rated line class of a blank is reduced if cut off from the butt? the blank in question is a 7 foot fiberglass blank which has a 12-40 lb line rating, i want to cut a foot off. any help would be much appreciated.
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