I have a customer that want's a Welsh Dragon woven on a rod. If anyone has such a pattern, sure would be interested in purchasing it. Approximately 3/4 inch high and 1 1'2 to 2 inches long would work great.
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Brett, I am leaving early tomorrow morning for Las Vegas and will not be back until Monday, but if you E-Mail me, I will send you a sample of what I use. It is excel, and if you are familiar with Excel, you can download the attachments I will send you. The only problem with Excel, is that it's really a spread sheet and you would have a file on each of your rods. If you used a data base progra
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Matt, I think there are pros and cons on using Epoxy as an adhesive. Some would say that epoxy is not an adhesive, that it is just a coating that sticks things together well, but does not bond two parts together. I don't know for sure. I use epoxy quite often to secure component reel seats together. Most like to use the rod bond because it is thicker and won't run. I prefer the epoxy and h
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What do you mean you never got mad at your son? I thought you said burial services were held?? Hi Jim, Was at your shop several month ago looking at your work and the looms that you make. Rick Case RodsByRick
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Dan, I use the same method as Lou does above. My knife of choice is an exacto knife. After I scrape the blank, I then use the wet and dry 400 grit to smooth the blank. By the way, I have found that scraping from the big end to the small end works best. Less chance of digging into the blank. Be easy, listen and feel what you are doing. You can tell if you are scraping too hard or to deep ju
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Fred, Yes, epoxy the butt cap to the threaded metal lock down screw barrell. Be careful to look at the barrell closely. One end is completely threaded to the end, and other end has about a 64th inch where the threads do not continue. Epoxy (or use the adhesive of your choice) the cap to the completely threaded end and insert the wood into the other end and Epoxy (or use the adhesive of your
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I had an ocassion to talk to a product manager at Cabelas one time, had some specific questions about the XML blank, and he told me that the the XML was made by G-Loomis to Cabelas specifications. I order about 30 to 50 of XML 5.5 and 6.0 blanks for trout rods each year. Used to order FEII blanks but they seemed to be to brittle and broke easy usually somewhere along the tip section. I have h
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Try India ink, the kind that comes in a bottle with a rubber bubble squeeze top on it. Rub it along the edge and let dry, cover with your favorite epoxy and enjoy the all black decal around the edges.
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I usually chuck the rod in the rod wrapper, spin the rod at a fairly good pace, apply pressure with an exacto knife at the point you want to cut off. Hold the knive steady with both hands. When the exacto knife hits the blank, stop and remove the cork. Then cut the blank with a dremel tool. After that, shape the end as Tom has mentioned above. If you have an inside calipar, you can get the d
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Karen, Before you glue anything else, you might try to flex the rod while holding each guide(one at a time) to see if you have a loose guide. If a guide is loose, the noise will stop while you are holding the guide. Just kind of shake the rod while holding the first guide then move down the blank trying each guide. If you find a loose guide, you will have to rewrap it or live with it. If t
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Bob, the above methods are proven to be good ones. The last time I had to repair cork was on a fly rod over the metal hood part of the reel seat. That area is very thin and shapely. Used an exacto knife to clean up the chipped area, cut and shaped an insert piece to exact size, used superglue to secure it in place and sanded it level. The owner could not see where I had made the repair, so I
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The focal length is manually adjusted. The power settings for depth are set at the time of inserting the information into the printing settings (burn time). Power settings can give you a light burn that just etches the surface or a deep burn. Different depths for different materials require different power settings and over the years of experimenting with the fishing rod items, we have the num
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For those of you that might really be interested, the power settings for depth on the lazer can be adjusted to only cut as deep as the finnish layer if you want. My brother owns an engraving store and we have experimented on blanks, reel seats, EVA, hyperlon, etc. We have probably experimented on just about all rod components except guides. On several of my rods, I have lazered wood insert
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Usually, the tip size advertised for the blank is the tip size you need to slip over the tip of the rod i.e., if the tip size says 5, then a 5 tiptop should slide right over the tip. If you want to be sure before you order the tiptop, you might want to get a tip sizer. Most of the sponsors carry them and there only a couple of dollars. Well worth the money. Rick Case RodsByRick
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JC Give me a call when you need assistance or when you are going to do something new and exciting. I like to watch and sometimes, I even try to help with a word from experience. Don't be a stranger. RC
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J.C. You can come over and read mine if you want. I won't charge you either. Rick C.
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