APFG = All Purpose Fast Glass, it's a linear S Glass instead of an S Glass that comes in a mat glass cloth like we have always seen before. Linear fiber orientation is how graphite prepeg is laid out, this improves the modulus of any material without having to change to material, more modulus (resistance to bending) allows you to use less to get the same result in the blank. NFC isn't the only on
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Why can't you just use a ultralight glass blank in the 1 to 6 lb. line class and be done with it? Your high end is in the 1/7 oz. range, I fish a Fenwick FS 53 and FS 61 2 piece for that purpose. A blank is a blank though. The guide weight will affect the blank considerably either way so be careful here. The FS 53 high end weight is a 7 g rod, 1 to 6 lb. line it's lived mostly on 2 lb. mono.
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I've used Pac Bay blanks many times over the years, using the musky blanks here wouldn't be a concern to me,
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If you buy a Custom Power Wrapper, at least my now old ancient one, you don't have to change a belt or not start wrapping another rod just because you are drying one. There are two positions on the stands side by side and the wrapper and dryer are also on the same base, side by side.
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Kitsumkalum River, a tributary of the Skeena River, Terrace, BC. Was sporting a first generation Lamson Lightspeed 3.5 and a second hand Venneri (sp) reel seat he had taken off his old broken Sage, I had heard of them, but never seen one. Both the reel seat and reel were in well used condition. It was sporting a heavy sink tip so if that is not your thing my thoughts wouldn't mean much as I menti
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I only had a 5 minute look at an 8 wt. Carbon Air so this is far from a perfect review, Aleks said earlier that this blank series reminds him of the Cross Current GLX, I agree and if you haven't experienced one they are on the saltwater side of blank design, they were more heavily constructed and faster than the freshwater GLX. But the weight I felt with the Cross Current line was not in this bui
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I don't live in your area so I may be off a bit, but there was a blank that was well received when available back in the day that looks like is still available at NFC now, the numbering is off, but the power and action should still be spot on, the P 702-1 HM appears to be a reboot of the popular Loomis P 8400, very similar to the Shakari PP 7000 that we used for dropshotting and finesse baits bac
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Sounds to me you are mixing the New Guide Concept that has been out for decades and the GPS system, they were never intended to be the same concept, the GPS has a much faster guide reduction and progression.
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Beulah makes a 3 wt. Euro.
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One 10 and the rest 6s, check the spacing charts on the NFC site, you don't have to look at all the charts just put your rod blank in the search box provided. Your guide layup is very old school when the reels were larger and higher off the rod.
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Bushido CB72 12-25.
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Backbouncing is a discription for many species, Salmon, steelhead, walleye, etc. We need more information and conditions.
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Not unheard of many guide rods are built that way for the reasons Tom mentioned.
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The comments about 16 mm seats were not for your application, but for the use of 16 mm standard pipe design reel seats. Your grip design should be fine, around 25 mm in diameter if I remember right. It's the first I have heard about discontinuing the VSS seat, it is a fairly new design, I had heard about the many decades old IPS reel seat, that came in 16- and 17-mm sizes and is similar in looks,
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You're going a bit over gunned for Mahi, my TLD 20 is way more than I ever needed. Get with Thrasher Rods and have them recommend one of their US built blanks that are a great value also. Sold my Mahi rod long ago, think it had a 10 inch eva rear grip, standard nylon pipe 20 mm reel seat, 8 or 10 inch foregrip, no gimbal needed, rubber doorknob butt cap.
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Wiebe/ Super Sticker reel seat uplocking with a custom shaped fore grip with a smaller than normal diameter rear grip to make it look sleeker, a piece of cake. Mr. Timberlake wrote an article on a similar hand build using a Tennessee grip slip ring and a threaded section off a reel seat. Called it the skull and cross bones or something like that seat. The mid cork sections are still available at
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If you are a beginner in building and fishing buy the carbon blanks. if you are an experienced angler than many will go more towards the Judge, a composite or a LS for cranks. Being an intermediate bass angler and not likely to improve in this lifetime, I have carbon 8 ft. rods and my 6 1/2 - 7 ft. rods are S Glass. Keeping fish on can be easier with a glass rod.
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Rarely are there absolute separate spacing charts for each model, mostly you will see the same spacing for all models in a series and just the guide sizes change as needed. If you look at their charts there many times rods three inches shorter or longer will have the same guides and spacing. The very reason I never use them, I do a static distribution test every time.
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The Pac Bay guides in my experience were a bit better, their coatings were titanium compounds to get the color they wanted, at least that was how the owner described it to me maybe 15 years ago. D & E rods has him make some gold on gold ceramic ring guides many years ago and one of my built rods has seen salt from time to time with no ill effects last I heard, maybe 5-6 years ago. Think I sti
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The Fuji is a standard pipe style spinning/casting reel seat, copied by many others, not pretty but very effective, reliable and inexpensive.
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I'd be surprised if it already doesn't have an aluminum lube inside the wood and reel seat, most of the old rods like that I have been around do, when brought in for repair.
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Lots of negative reviews at Johnny's Pond and the site hasn't been touched for a decade. Flex Coat has a four.
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Easily the nicest Spey reel seat I ever used was a Spey sized uplocking Ferguson reel seat from Bellinger many years ago, the second was a Snake Brand Spey seat, the insert variety on both was large.
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Put an arbor inside the hollow threaded area, problem solved. not all reel seats of this type were built hollow in the threaded area, many had little light weight fins inside already sized to the rest of the seat and others were just a solid interior the size of the seat bore.
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Looks like a SeaGuide AirK seat to me, bet they have an insert for it. Rodbuilders Warehouse to the left.
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Remember the tube you use now becomes the ID of the reel seat; it will be in the neighborhood of 13 mm on the 16 mm seat. Don't forget the nut, I would get it from the same place as the tube to cut shipping costs if possible.
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My 6 ft. casting straight grips are 6 inches long. Now days I think 7 inch is much easier to find and, in many materials, I don't think would make a tinker's bit of difference.
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If you're interested the then owner of Pac Bay assured me the Ti Bronze guides would hold up very well and so far, they have over the last 12 years or more on the Super Seeker salmon rod blank I put them on.
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Chris, I would go to the boss Bill Falconer, bfalconer@anglersreource.net
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Roque P 705-2, 8 - 17 lb. line, 1/4 to 5/8 oz. lures, 5 tip, .495" butt, XF action. I've cast less than 1/4 oz. with it, the tip is lighter and faster than my other like powered popping rods, a Loomis P844 GLX 4 power and Lamiglas IM700 IMP 844, 4 power., butt power about the same on all, the Lamiglas is rated 3/8 - 3/4 oz. Unhide your email and I can send you a copy of the Rogue catalog,
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