I am currently building my second set of rods (3 of them). One for my father, one for my brother, and one for myself of course. I remembered this forum and came back to doublecheck the advice you all had previously provided. I want to thank everyone for their advice and I am pleased to report that the first build was a huge success. The rod consistently outperforms all of the others in our ar
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Agreed Nicholas, I bullseyed the 20H and 10H to the choke point which maintained the 21" overall reduction train length (the 20H, 10H, and choke point seem to bullseye exactly where they are supposed to from the GPS) and then moved the 6L out to to align with the bullseye. Unfortunately, the 6L had to move quite a bit to achieve this. I even moved the choke point out to get the half and half
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Thank you for the advice Norm and Jim, I will put the 10H 2nd reducer back into the GPS position and move the 6L 3rd reducer accordingly. I'm feeling much more comfortable about continuing the build thanks to your input.
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Thank you all for the responses so far. It sounds like it might be better to move the 3rd reduction guide instead of the second? The input into the GPS is 84", 13", 4000, conventional, 12-15 braid. I chose this reduction train setup because it seems to be in between the output of the 4000 at 20 lb braid and the 3000 at 12-15 lb braid. I decided on those inputs into GPS because
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Hello, I'm new to this forum and working on my first build/rebuild of a blank I used and loved in my younger years. I decided to go with the KR concept after doing much research. Since I knew I'd be putting some time into this I went with Titanium SiC. I am having an issue with my reduction train achieving the bullseye configuration with the first three guides (stripper, 2nd reducer, 3rd reducer
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