Hey fellas, Have any of you ever used a fly seat on a light or ultralight spinning rod? The two styles of seats appear to closely resemble in their designs and it is fly seats that have the bigger variety in decorative looks in most rod parts catalogues I see. Can either interchange in rod-building, or are spinning seats and fly seats really too different from one another for that? Ju
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Hey fellas, Any of you building with Arctos blanks? These seem to be thin and light-weight for their performance parameters compared to other brands of blanks I've seen. AMC996-2 ARCTOS MUSKY 8’3” 2PC FAST, HEAVY 8’3” Line 25-50 Lure 1-4oz 2 piece Fast Action 6.5 tip 0.57" butt 3.19oz blank weight: I recently built my muskie rod on this and it seems to perform to ex
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Hey Fellas, I'm just wondering if any of you ever worked with the Pac Bay line of Ti frame guides. I know they are fitted with Zirconia rings which I'm sure is very good material. Looking forward to your input.
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Apparently Fuji did discontinue its Ti-framed Alconites and what's left out there are mostly remnants that won't make a complete guide train. The good news is American Tackle, Alps, and Pac Bay all have titanium-framed guides. Procuring anything in this category these days seems pretty tricky. A COVID-19 lockdown thingy, maybe? Feedback from the various rod-build suppliers I contacted in
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I'm just wondering what's up with the Fuji K-Series titanium frame Alconite and SiC rings. Have these been discontinued? Every build supply site I've been to has been met with "no longer available" or "sold out" or "out of stock". I had to settle for another brand of Ti-framed rings to get a complete guide train. Anybody else getting these issues with Fuj
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