Okay I think I sent you one Buzz.
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Thanks for the responses! I think I will go tennesse, im easily persuaded maybe, but yall make it sound pretty good! Ha im waiting for my rod building book to come in the mail here still so hopefully thatll help answer questions I have on the actaual building of my rod, but if not you can count on seeing more questions to come!! Thanks again for your guys input! Tight lines, Riley
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I am in the process of starting to build my first rod, a 36" laker ice rod on a batson blank. I never had put any consideration into doing a Tennessee handle until Roger mentioned it in one of my previous threads which got me interested. Wondering what peoples thoughts are on this, or other handle suggestions. Thanks! Also, in some of my reading I been doing it seemed like people will als
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So, mudhole only seems to have a 10" tennesse handle. The rod im building I think I will make is 36". Would you say that the 10" TN handle will work fine still or should I keep looking for ab 8" TN handle somewhere (which im having a hard time finding anywhere actually) Also, if I did buy the 10", does it harm the integrity of the handle if I would just cut out a 2&q
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Thanks once again Roger! Appreciate it.
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What kind of handles do you guys like to put on this rod? Is a regular "ice rod" handle good, or should I get closer to like a 10" spin rod handle? - I have been ordering most my stuff from mudhole if theres something giod there you guys would suggest These are probably pretty elementary questions, but I like hearing your guys' opinions. Thanks
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Roger- where do you buy these guides from?
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From conversation between some people, ive decided on buying a batson solid glass rod blank for my laker rod and first try at rod building, and I think im going to cut it down to 36" (tentatively). The next step here now is deciding on guides; size, spacing, style, etc. Im sure there are 100's of combinations one could do, and I hope to experiment with that down the road. But for now, id
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Roger and Dave, thanks! Im lookin forward to diving into this project. Been something I wanted to do for awhile now so here it goes! -Riley
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For clarification, because there are a lot different kinds, is this the blank you guys are suggesting?
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Very helpful everybody, thanks!
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Would the batson blank work okay with jigs below 1/2 oz as well, or is that the kinda on the lower end of things youd wanna go? And seems like a lot of people like the baitcaster option for these but I prefer spincast reels, that wouldnt be any issue I dont think would it? Again im new to this so just want to check. Thanks.
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Hello all, Im new to rod building, well actually im looking into starting, because I need a new rod for lake trout fishing and I want to try this out. I found this forum and have already read and learned quite a bit, but figured id see if anyone has any comments specific to what im looking for. I do most of my lake trout fishing in the BWCA, im USUALLY not fishing over 100+ ft of water eit
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