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6 years ago
mike steinzig
Norm, thanks for the additional input. I started last night so i'm committed. The guide on the first one came off fairly easily, and I didn't use any heat, just scraped the thread and epoxy off the top of the guide. next will be the remaining thread and epoxy, and I am almost as afraid of damaging the rod with heat as I am of damaging it with the blade. The wraps are covered with epoxy, but t
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6 years ago
mike steinzig
OK, thanks Roger. I'll let you know how it goes. i have a couple of heat guns, i assume one of those or a hair dryer? Is that what you use?
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6 years ago
mike steinzig
Roger, my preference would be to remove the guides from the top section and redo them all with the same color scheme, but I've never done that before. Is it difficult to remove guides that have been epoxied on? How much risk of damaging the rod by doing that? thanks to Ron and Bill for their input; i agree, the fish can't see the colors, but by that reasoning you guys would all be out of bus
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6 years ago
mike steinzig
Hi All, I'm a Noob, having built two Sage 2 piece RPL fly rods in my time, both about 25 years ago. I've broken one of the butt sections and bought a new sage blank butt section to rebuild. The issue is, I don't have the thread I used previously, and am worried about matching the color (a dark red, and if I remember I didn't use a color preserver). So, I could do some practice wraps on th
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