So I keep finding blanks that I bought over a decade ago at the expo. This one has the following: 22mm butt 2.9 mm tip It's 6'11-1/2" long. At the butt, the wall thickness is 3.25mm. The color is black. Most of the label is gone, but the start of the marking was "WC" Any ideas?
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If you're going to be cutting allot of blanks, you might want to consider one of these jigs. They are commonly used in bike shops with a fine tooth hack saw for cutting carbon fiber tubes (like handle bars & steerer tubes). Masking tape is typically used (like described above), & take care not to crush the tube when clamping.
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Is there any practical difference in wrapping with nylon vs Poly thread? So far, everything I've actually wrapped rods with has been nylon based (reg & NCP), I see some poly stuff on mud hole & wondered if it's better/worse/same. I bought some outdoor appolstry thread at the local fabric store just to mess around with and that stuff was so slippery & stiff that it wouldn't stick to
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"It's an All-Star flipping stick...MH/MF" Thanks. Any thoughts about how ill advised it would be to build it as a spinning rod?
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Hello all, 1st post here. So about a decade ago, I went to the ICRBE & grabbed several blanks from the trash cans. Not too long after, I stopped fishing for a while & I just discovered a few blanks hanging in the garage. The one I'm most interested in has the following marking on a label near the but: GFS827T. I assume the FS stands for Flipping Stick & the 82 pretty well m
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