Hi Ray, The main drama with using the microwave set for a Barra rod is the smallish running guides that need to pass a serious knot through them, the size 5 is pushing it for clearance of the typical 30-50lb braid to 30-80lb leader knot that will be passing, if your customer ties a good fg or pr knot then it will be marginally suffice but anything like an albright knot and they won't be any goo
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Hi Cameron, Over here in Australia most of our lure fishing is done with braid and mono or commonly fluoro leader, size 6 running guides should be fine with the line sizes you are using, this is fairly general practice for rods over here but microguides are becoming more popular. I dont know the j knot, but you could also look at learning the fg knot, it is a great knot for this problem. Good vi
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Hi guys, in Australia our bass are typically a bit smaller than the US, generally 12-15in average and 2-3lbs, a 7lbs fish being prize on par with your double digit largemouth, i'v built good spinnerbait rods on 6-10lb sj blanks, this rod throws 1/4- 1/2oz spinnerbaits with 10lb braid as far as you will ever have to. I recently built a 6'6 phenix elixir 1-6lb trout blank as a baitcast rod for a c
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I put up a post the other day here, ''Making contact with'' still waiting since july! Gee the fishing must be good. Josh
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Still nothing and the answering service is full and i cant even leave a message. Everett would you be able to let me know if you here anything. Also Everett did u order through his website ordering email? I did that also a few months ago but after no answer for a month i emailed another address i found for him, he said the ordering email address had been hacked or had a virus or something,
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Hi guys, Is anybody in regular contact with Mike P from a sponsor RR? I have a very small order placed with him and haven't been able to make contact with him since he took my order about 2 months ago. I fully understand how long things take, but Im sure my customer thinks i am taking him for a ride as i have no answers. I have emailed numerous times without reply and also tried calling but
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Thanks for the advice, yeah i understand the smaller i.d needed to fit to blank size at the front of the grip. I have found the flexcoat borer spade bits and mite try to fashion something like this on a normal spade bit, with a piece of round metal material/ tube that is the same size as the i.d of the eva and hope that the point of the spade bit can follow this in to the eva while drilling. A
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Hey guys, having only built a couple of bass rods for personal use and only used premade moulded eva, im at the point where i want to try shaping my own eva grips. Trouble being i want to put a foregrip on the fuji kskts casting seat with the kdps style front. Has anybody bored out eva with a spade bit or similar (20mm or close to that i believe) wats the best/easiest way to do this?? Che
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