OK...I tried the hot/cold water idea but the sections are still really glue together. Didn't come apart. I'm reluctant to try the windex because I'm fearful it will soften the epoxy on the wraps/guides. A friend of mine is a chemist and he suggested using vinegar because it's acidic. I tried scrubbing it in with a soft toothbrush and it worked on one of the sections and it cleaned up the reel qui
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I recently did a recreational river float trip down a local river with friends and family and while we were floating I caught a quick glimpse of a very straight "stick" under the water and immediatly thought it was too straight for a branch or willow so I inexplicably dove in with much surprise and fanfare to my fellow floaters. I grabbed it and brought it back to the raft and it turned
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I currently have a 5wt Sage SP in a five pc rod that I love the flex and power of. I also have a 5 pc Winston 2wt I built and love that one too. Both of these rods have a moderatly soft tip to absorb the shock of an agressive fish and miminize busting off a light tippet as quickly but yet I can hurl a honking big streamer equally well with both rods. So I'm wanting to build a 5wt 2pc for a trip I
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I'm thinking of building a new 5wt flyrod too. I'm thinking the Rainshadow IM7 is the blank I'm wanting to build on because it's a little slower than the IM8 apparently and has a softer tip. Question I have is how does the Rainshadow/Forecast blanks stack up against say a Sage SP or a Winston for example. I attended a rod building workshop last year put on by Lamiglass and talked to a Forecast re
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I use a masons line. I tape one end down to the reel seat in alignment of where the fly line comes off the reel run it through the guides out the tip top then support the rod in a bracket I fashioned out of a piece of plywood and a post type of an arrangement. Then I flex the rod with a downrigger ball clipped to the string line. Then I align the guides so they run straight and don't have a bend
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So I gather you have either previously removed the guides from blank #1 which you are pushing through the guides of the rod you are trying to align the guides on or you have not yet installled them on the first blank.. BjR
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William, Do you have any pictures of the process you are describing? I can't really say I followed that. BjR
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I've been out of computer commission so I haven't been able to follow up on the threads here lately. Where and when is this exposition? Can you post a link? BjR
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It's the adaptacaps that are the ones I was looking for. Mike you used the 24mm for LS supreme. anybody know what size for the one oz Flex Coat bottles? Thanks campers BjR
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I asked this once before but I can't find it through the search function. Can somebody post a link to the site that had the dispenser caps for flex coat bottles. I can't remember what they were called to do a search and I'm coming up empty handed except for the epoxy practically dripping down to my elbows and I'm tired of that. Thanks BjR
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Got a link to Landmark Bill? BjR
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Ha?............................My wife? Sew..........................................? Thats almost as funny as me trying to sew. But I'd be more likely to try it than her...... Time is of whats most important for me right now. BjR
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Any body know off hand where I can get ahold of some five piece rod bags? Just light weight poplin divided bags. I've tried Cabelas which is where I usually get 2pc rod bags but they don't have any five piece bags. I can get some that has a SAGE logo on at a local shop but it's a gift for somebody from me and I don't want SAGE to take the visual credit. And lastly, I just don't have time to crui
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Here's a link to the page in Flex Coats web site that describes adding the correct/ recommended amounts of acetone to the epoxy mix: BjR
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Nick, I recently had a similar problem. The board members here suggested I use 3cc's of each hardner and epoxy. The is no margin of error in the 1cc amount. I suppose you were like me trying to be conservative and not waste any epoxy and thinking I was doing the right thing when infact it won't set up at those mix amounts. Just mix up 3cc's each, minimum, and re-coat your wraps toss the waste an
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I was at a rod building workshop in Woodland a while back in April and one of the presenters just mounted a couple of rubber skate board wheels mounted next to each other just so they weren't touching each other on a piece of what looked like 4" aluminum channel. He then put the butt end of a blank between the two skate board wheels and pressed down and the spline popped right up. I've been
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Very good. Thanks I think I'll stick with FC. BjR
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I realize that there are probably 9,000, 872,612 discussions on this board on Perma gloss but I want to ask for the 9,000,872,613 th time about it's use before I'm committed to applying it to a new rod blank. As I understand it from all I have read that I can just apply it directly to the wraps on my guides, very thinly, I might add and with color loc and after three-four thin coats they should
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How do you apply permagloss? With a brush or your finger in gloves? Or something else? BjR
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Is permagloss really aromatic? Like will the smell permeate my house from coating thread wraps on a fly rod and cause my wife who is a superfund site manager with the EPA to become concerned for her safety? BjR
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Fred, Did I meet you at the Woodland, Washington rod building workshop last month? BjR
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I've got an opportunity to get a Batson power wrapper for a pretty good price. Under 200.00 bucks actually. It's slight used but in pretty good shape. I'm dragging my feet because I haven't tried out a power wrapper and I don't really know enough about them to ask the right questions. I'm getting to a point in my rod building side biz that it makes sense economically to move into this stage of de
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John Can you post some pics of this unit. Sounds like it was a beauty. Are you looking to sell it? BjR
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John Can you post some pics of this unit. Sounds like it was a beauty. Are you looking to sell it? BjR
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NICE JOB. I guess you don't have to worry about the mounting plate breaking with the diamond plate as the bracket. Again ...........NICE JOB. Kevin did you see this article that Tom is talking about and / or did you experience any problems with how the expoy turned out? BjR
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Tom In the absence of having this particular issue of RM magazine could you offer the nickle version of what these specifics might be? BjR
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Can you post some pic's and or describe what and how it works? I'm interested in building one myself and would be interested in what has worked and didn't work for others. BjR
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I'd just get a multi piece blank and build yourself a new rod if I was you. For the amount of time it would take to putz around with chopping off a perfectly good 2 pc ( which sometime you might want to have a two piece) you could have youreself a fine new multi piece. BjR
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I figgered out the correct way to apply them via Decal Connections very good instructions that are on the web site and what they sent me. What I still have a hard time with is how do you get them correctly aligned and straight on the rod itself. Anybody have any good tricks for that? BjR
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Do you guys enclose the rod with the lights in the enclosure as it's turning somehow ? BjR
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