For sure roger. I think it was a blessing in disguise. The tip of the blank had some waves in it so I dont think it wouldve lasted long anyways. Luckily he was nice enough to upgrade me to a rainshadow xst1562f for well under msrp. Should be here today. Hopefully start my build this weekend.
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So my blank showed up today. Shipped in a pvc tube. And they some how figured out a way to smash it. Cracking the lower third blank where it meets the middle section. Thanks usps.
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Appreciate the info guys. This is only my second build. I figured I could take established guides that I got from a builder and just bring it to the blank faster by eliminating some reduction guides. Luckily I'm building it at a local rod building shop that lets people build their own. Is taping the guides in place sufficient enough to do a static test and possibly cast some line through it befor
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I should mention this will be a centerpin rod. With a small chance of using a spinning reel. But thank you. Ill have to do some more research before I makena final decision.
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Acutal guide heights Size 20 match - 47mm Size 16 zv - 33.9mm Size 10 zv - 21.25mm Size 7 zv - 14.4mm Size 7 f - 8.7mm The reason I want the minimas is cost and weight. My last rod I built is the same length but used steel ceramic guides and its kind of tip heavy. Don't want that with this build. Also I plan on wrapping a f guide for the tip top instead of a glue on one. Since there's no
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Building my second steelhead float rod. And want to do a "concept" guide train. Building on the pac bay tradition 2 13' 6-10lb 3 piece blank. Going to be using pac bay minima guides. A combination of their match, zv, and f running guides. So far my plan is a size 20 match. 16, 10, and 7 zv. And 7 f all the way to the tip top. The guide height difference is about 14mm for the reduction g
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