Thanks Michael, that's the info I was looking for.
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Hi, I'm looking for an 8ft fly rod blank for smallmouth bass fishing in a big creek. There are to many over hanging limbs for anything longer, I've been using a 7wt. St. Croix Mojo Bass fly rod that works fine but I want to build one as I prefer to use rods that I have built. The only fly blank I can find in 8ft that might fit what I'm looking for is the Sage Bass II blanks but I don't know which
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Thanks Tom
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A friend has asked me to replace a guide on a St. Croix fly rod, He only gave me the tip section and didn't remember what model rod it is and I can't get a hold of him right now to find out which model fly rod it is and I would like to order the guide as soon as posible, all I know is that it's a 9' 8/9 wt. and it's a brown blank with dark brown wraps, he said he has had the rod a long time. The
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Check out Phenix blanks, they have 2 7'6" blanks in their Ultra MBX Spinning line. I have the UMBX-S706M built as a casting rod that I use as my main drop shot rod and I love it, they also have UMBX-S706MH which I'd like to try.
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Steve, any paticular brand that you prefer.
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Thanks Charles.
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Charles, what kind of fishing are you using them for, I'm thinking about getting a couple to use for musky fishing. thanks for any info you can provide.
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Thanks, I kind of figured that out the hard way, not to hard to mess up the edges while cutting the decal out, I had to trim off one edge where it delaminated so wrapping over it would probably be a bad idea. thanks again.
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Bill , I got paper media from you, I'm using the Holo shine and the rod dia. is 0.850in. and yes I sprayed with 3 coats of clear matte acrylic.
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I finally got my printer settings right and printed a Holographic decal and now I'm ready to apply it, will it hurt to wrap over the ends of it to help hold it in place. I read the article about 5 time and don't recall seeing it mentioned and need to know if it's a no no or not. Thanks for any help.
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Have any of you tried using rubber bands with a short piece of a small straw to hold the rubber band in place. I'm pretty sure somebody posted it on here a couple of years ago but I couldn't find the old post. I'm building my first micro rod and had to get smaller rubber bands and a smaller straw, I think the straws are actually for stiring coffee but they work for me. I posted a few photos so yo
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Scott, I add the spinning guide to all my flipping sticks, I put the guide about 5 inches in front of my reel and the line no longer gets wrapped around the reel handle. I posted a photo of one if your interested in how it looks.
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The only blank I can think of is the ATC II MB 703-X 1/4 - 1oz lures. It's a 7 foot rod but I don't know what it's collapsed length is, I have a Shikari MB 762-X which is 7'6" extended and 6 feet 1/2 inch collapsed, I don't know if ATC changed anything about these blanks after they bought Shikari out or not. St. Croix use to make a 6'10" tel. blank but I don't see it listed on their web
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Why not use a live bait blank and a spinning reel with a bait runner feature built in so you don't have to loosen your drag like that. ATC makes a couple of 7'6" live bait blanks and Lamiglas makes 7' to 9 foot live bait blanks, I'm not sure but a popping blank might work also.
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Thanks Don, I'll have to give it a try.
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Roy, if you have a Brother P-Touch 2600 label printer it should have come with a USB cable so you can hook it up to your computer. I use 1/2" TZ tape to make my labels. I use cp to seal the label before I put finish on, so far I have only had one that lifted from separation and that was my fault, I didn't make a clean cut on one corner when I trimmed it. The labels look pretty good but you c
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Thanks for the info Tom.
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I have a Seeker CLB 702 that I built to catch catfish with. A friend was checking it out and likes the soft tip section but wanted to know if the rod will handle 5 & 6 oz. sinkers for bottom fishing or will he need to step up to the CLB 704 and if so how much stiffer will the tip section be. Thanks for any info.
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I have used quite a few labels made with a Bother P-touch label maker and all I do is trim them with scissors making sure to round the corners off, after I put it on and use the roller on it I coat the whole label with CP and haven't had any problems so far. I've been using the Diamondite CP, I don't know if that makes any difference or not but I haven't tried any of the other brands.
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The Flex Coat DVD has a segment on using the 200 RPM finishing machine. When I was using my power wrapper I turned the speed control to a lower setting so the rod wouldn't turn to fast. Like said above 200 RPM's is not that fast, I'm now using a 100 RPM motor with the Flex Coat slip clutch, it works all right but I would prefer some thing a little faster.
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Try Schneider's Rod Shop, I got some from him a couple of years ago. They are listed under Batson Guides. Hope this helps.
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Thanks Bill, just got done turning the grips and should have them and the reel seat mounted later tonight.
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OK, I just wanted to make sure I understood what you said. Thanks again.
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Thanks Tim, so what your saying is to use extra rod bond so that it fills the gaps between the ribs?
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Hi guys, long time reader but have only posted a couple of times. I find the anwsers to most of my questions by doing a search. Now for my question, have any of you used the Fuji ACS reel seat yet. I just got one to try, it has narrow fins or ridges running though it, doesn't look like much contact area for glueing it to the blank. I would like to know if I need to do anything different when glu
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I've used some of your components, guides and reel seats and 1 blank (RX7 ISB822.5) that I like a lot. I use your textured blank exposed trigger reel seats on most of my casting rods but how about one designed after the RF Light reel seat, I think that would be nice.
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I don't know if this good enough but take a look.
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Hi guys, I just posted a photo of a label I made using a brother P-touch 2600 label printer. I think they look alright for my own use but if I were building a rod for a friend I would order one from decal connection. With the 2600 you can use Photo Shop or which ever photo editing software you like to design your label, that way you get a lot more choices in fonts and font sizes.
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Take a look at the Shikari's, they have 8 footers in SHII,SHIII,SHX and several powers to choose from.
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