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Murray, the answer to your question is, yes there are lots of classes in various Canadian cities where you can learn rod building - I just did a simple Internet search for 'fly rod building classes in Canada' and lots showed up! As Mark and others note the physical construction of a rod is fairly easy and you can certainly learn on your own (books, internet) BUT, you can develop some bad (or at
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Bill The owner is not wedded to the original handle. I am mainly just looking for a similar extendable handle that will recreate the functionality. If I can find the components to do a replacement seat/extendable handle, I would prefer that. Better is always...better! So if there are alternatives that have the same effect but better results, I'm in. Any thoughts?? If I can't find the
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Two photos are in the reel seats photo file....one disassembled and one "assembled". As noted, the reel seat in the picture is not correct for this application but shows the full extension. The whole piece, except the cork butt piece hides in the reel seat. What is missing is the extension to the front that provides the connection to the blank. Cheers John
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I will try to get some photos this morning...unfortunately only camera phone but they should be good enough to get the idea. The reel seat that I took off this latest rod is a conventional seat (but I didn't discover that until I had excavated it out of the old cork handle). That is one of the reasons the seat wasn't functioning properly. John
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Sorry folks, I had a family emergency I needed to deal with out of town over that past 1.5 days ...I'm back at the screen again. Bill, unfortunately it is not repairable in its current form...there was some "creative" work done to make it look functional but the guy I am fixing it for couldn't get it to work properly...when I took it apart, all it was was a mass of masking tape and
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Sorry folks, I had a family emergency I needed to deal with out of town over that past 1.5 days ...I'm back at the screen again. Bill, unfortunately it is not repairable in its current form...there was some "creative" work done to make it look functional but the guy I am fixing it for couldn't get it to work properly...when I took it apart, all it was was a mass of masking tape and e
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I have an old 9 wt Fenwick fly rod that has a reel seat with an extendable fighting butt (the kind you can screw out and screw back in as needed). The existing reel seat and extendable butt are no longer functional and I need to replace them. I have searched a bit through suppliers on the site and elsewhere for a replacement and have come up empty. Does anyone still make this type of reel seat
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