Kerry thank you so much! I really appreciate you taking the time to explain that, I’ll give it a go!
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So I’m trying to somewhat “copy” the look of these thread wraps does anyone have experience with doing a 2 tone thread wrap like the ones pictures above. If so what’s the best way to go about this thanks!
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curious if anyone has experience making their own Eva hood for a hidden thread reel seat, what is need and is it worth the amount work?
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Thanks Tom!!
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So I was just curious can silk thread be used on a graphite rod, I’m trying to somewhat replicate a look that is on a megabass rod and it almost looks like they used a green silk .
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Does anyone know where I can buy the shrink ready grips from American tackle
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I’m on the fence about cp or no cp but thanks guys I’ll call and look at some stuff
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Anybody have recommendations on the closest color thread to match the blue metallic mhx blank??
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Does anybody know if Northfork makes a soft touch hidden thread cover and if not does anybody??? I have the alps soft touch hood but it looks out of place. Was just curious as to if there’s anything else on the market. Thanks!!
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Tom I’d love to take a look at that!
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Where do you buy it im interested
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Thinking of just getting batsons full length handle, I like how this one tapers but I can’t find parts to make it work. Super disappointed
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I thought the same thing but there is nothing that says this is a spinning handle vs a casting handle. I attached a build with the same handle, this is a picture from a review a guy left on mud hole about this grip. I have no idea how he did it
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Then if you flip it around the Butt cap will fit but then you end up with the od of the reel seat and od of the grip having the same problem it to mention it just looks cheesy that way
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I technically could but the outter diameters of each won’t match up
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Mike that’s my goal, rear tenon is 14.7 mm let’s call it 15mm so I need a butt cap with an i.d that’ll fit that and finding one has been challenging
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Has anybody used the Winn full length taper grip? And if so how do you orient it on the blank. If the small end is behind the reel seat it doesn’t match up, if the large end is at the reel seat then the butt cap is too big.
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So I actually emailed this company to see if it can be bought and shipped to the USA, no answer yet and I’m not very hopeful but that arrow shaft coating tool is actually pretty cool!!
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It seems to be a mixed opinion topic, personally I haven’t had a problem with it on my nfc blanks, try using size d thread
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So there was a post a little bit ago about this topic and I did some research and found this. This is from a company in Japan I assume that is commercially made for squeegee painting fishing rods, how cool is that??? Anyway just thought I’d get it out there who knows maybe a company over here will see it and make something similar.
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They sell the apparatus to paint with also…. Man the American market is seriously behind on this in my opinion
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This is the product they appear to be using I can’t find anywhere to buy it though. I would love to see this be introduced into the us market
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Awesome! I’m planning on buying some reguardless I hear the quality is some of the best you can buy!
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Has anyone fished the new cts bass line of blanks? How is the quality of cts in general?? They have a lot of great colors I’d like to build on
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Might just say screw trying to coat a whole rod… I’ve always wanted to get a blank to have just a shimmer of color to it like add some pearl pigment to the varnish but it almost seems not worth it
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Hmmmm yeah I’m gonna have to try it out
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Just experimenting that’s all
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Tom that’s what I was thinking since it’s essentially permagloss, they have some degree of uv protection too. I’m sorry did anybody say it’s okay to use on thread wraps? Permagloss that is
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Norm, that’s what I want to try. I was just seeing if there was something I could get at a store near me that would work. But permagloss seems to be the ticket, how is it on thread wraps??
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Has anybody has any experience using a polyurethane coating for a whole rod? Something like minwax, I see a lot of guys in Europe use something called bondaseal and I was wondering if the closest thing we have to that (minwax) would work as well
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