I wanted to to give an update on my build. The handle is removed and replaced and has turned out great I'm so happy with it. So I'm now ready to start wrapping the guides. I made a wood table with springs and all. So I found some old broken rods and I'm have removed the wraps and have used them for practice. Had a little trouble with the wrap as it goes on the the guides. Now it is a large spinni
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Just to give an up date I found a great fly shop to get all my parts. The guys there we're very help fill and told me that it was a great rod to do it with. Also told me to come back with any questions anytime; but to bring the rods back to show off. So work on replacing rod seat and starting the guides.
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I live in St. Louis mo
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You are right Russell it does have some red in it. So thank you I've been trying to find more about it. Matthew I will take some more pictures soon before I start. I did stop by a high class fly fishing shop to have it checked out. But they really kinda pew pewed me. Really didn't seem to care because they don't do the work there. And so really zero help just I would put more $ in it than it's w
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Hi my name is Ian I'm a 40 year old guy that wants to try to build a rod. I'm a union artificial turf installer so I'm good with my hands. So I'm wanting to know. What are the main things I need? I looked on mud hole for blanks is a IM6 a good starter rod.
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Yes they may just become wall pieces. I but will say this I went to a boat a fishing show over 5 years ago and was talking to a guy about doing a rod. So I think I got the bug to try to do a rod make it custom for me. And I feel that the reward I get from catching a fishing from a fly I made will be even greater if it was also be the pole. I just join here and have found it very nice. I plan on
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Ok thank you for the advice about doing a dry run with some different rod. I understand there will be a large learning curve for me. I am think about getting a bait caster rod so maybe start there. As for time I have rods for about 15 years. So I'm not in a rush to have them. But I hope to find ideas and advise like this to try this.
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Ok I was tied flys before and enjoy it a lot. But I have gotten 2 of the same st. Croix 6'6 inch fly rods from my late grandfather. I would love to rebuild them to working condition.im running into many problems from identifying them to never building an fishing rod. Was hoping to find the help to bring theses back to life. Ok this is what I know they had cork handles, they are st. Croix with a w
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