Colten it's all explained in the Glossary section of my book, I think pages 19 & 20.
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Gonna miss seeing the notebook with all the stuff you're going to buy written down. HEal up!!
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Rod Forge HTD 76MLF will fit the bill perfectly for what you are doing, here are the specs: HTD-76MLF 7'6'' Medium Light Fast 4lb-10lb 1?8-3?8 oz 1.78 oz Tip:4 Butt::0.498 I fished the Rod Forge 73 MXS when I filled Mille Lacs in June, and while the M rating might be more than you were wanting it certainly didn't hurt with all the 20"+++ fish that I caught up there. The XS = Extr
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I'm not a big fan of IG for rodbuilding, but it's an effective tool to reach people. IMO, I feel it's worth it to have a kit handy. The UV Curing resin has a lot of uses other than just as a guide wrap finish. When I was at the ROd Forge facility a couple of weeks ago they timed me and it took 7 minutes to coat and cure 9 guides. With practice and on my set up at home I'm sure I could have a rod
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Neil I have a couple of videos of a woman wrapping a guide and finishing it on my Instagram. I'm not going to claim it's going to last longer than thread and epoxy, I don't know for sure. But I do know for a wuick turnaround on repairs, or i my case - I shipped 3 blanks to Florida and was able to build myself 3 fishign rods and take them fishing within a couple of hours time - with no wrapper, no
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I've been fishing several rods all yar with the carbon tape wrapped guides and UV finish and they are just fine
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Cool story Nick. Good to know his work is still being used to this day
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The bark looks amazing.
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Kendall Cikanek Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I have a lot of > potential plans with Mudhole. This is a big step in the right direction for me, and for The Art”. > I don’t know why so many involved are so evasive about Mudhole and AT. We were talking about designing a line of SW blanks, and doing Advanced Classes. They also allowed me to use the
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Kendall Cikanek Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > You can’t be a fanboy as an > employee/contractor/affiliate. But I can post facts. Name one other company or organization who can dispute what I said. If you'd like you can combine the entire industry in your reply and still it won't come close for what MH doesto grow rodbuilding. Who is a contractor
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Kendall Cikanek Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I don’t know about Mudhole/AT doing good things for us. They are primarily/soley responsible for driving the growth of this industry for the last 15 years.
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I wonder when Rick will chime in with his "Fanboy venom" aimed at Tom. lmao
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Mark Talmo Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > To put “sales quotas” on a struggling newbie is counterproductive to the overall health and growth > of our rod building industry!!! Read and comprehend that again!!! It appears that the only All you have to do is look at the success Mudhole is having to see how unbelievably wrong you are. One by one all the
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Rick Handrick Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Wow - didn't expect that kind of fanboy venom for that one. Alrighty then. Truth injury, get this guy a medic!!
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Rick Handrick Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > t to drop the $1,000 yearly purchase minimum for wholesale accounts. Mudhole should be praised and worshipped for this policy Scott Parsons from Fishsticks4u tried doing this and it pretty much ran him out of business by the vast majority of "business owners" who were unable to hit his $200 yearly mi
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Good to see Americans supporting American businesses
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I am so excited to be part of this!! Big thanks to Bob & Todd at Mudhole for including me. I'm scheduled for 2 seminars, but I will be assigning HW to those attending for me to give COnsucktive Criticism on when I'm not presenting. IF you are attending, make sure to get in touch with me so you can get some bonus sessions.
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That's great that Archie and bill are next to each other!!
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Archie & Renzetti are in teh same booth space, and nobody is in 407.
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One part of their business will be building finished rods, and possibly blanks for other companies to put their name on. The other part will be having a full line of blanks for custom rod builders to build on.
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Bob Penicka who started Rodgeeks, has opened a blank manufacturing facility in Dallas, Texas - it is called Rod Forge. He will be using his same gameplan for this venture - painted blanks, top notch customer service, and a 24-48 hour turn around on all orders. They are expecting to sell blanks at the ICRBE in NC in February.
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Questions isn't clear. Are you using my book and VisualWrap?
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Steven I'm glad you're able to make this one. Its' awesome that you are going to get the opportunity to meet both Jim & Bill adn everyone else. Loking forward to meeting you, hope oyu have a few rods to bring...along with your appetite!
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Thanks for volunteering to cook on Saturday Lance. We're going to have a great weekend
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Looking forward to seeing you Jim!! I'm glad we had so much interest after the one in April to warrant doing another one in November. GOing to be a great time with an awesome group of people.
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Guides do not flex the same as a blank. Something has to give. It's the epoxy. Anyone who says they build heavy rods like you are and do not experience cracking at all - they are lying.
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Mark Brassett Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > My theory is that the second coat on a nearly, but > not fully cured first coat inhibits the exothermic > reaction of first coat thus not allowing the > gasses and heat energy to dissipate in order to > complete the process. Exothermic reactions are > technically an evaporation. > >
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If it was tacky for a week - you still have mixing/proportion issues.
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You should be a yoga instructor...interesting how you twist and stretch words to fit your narrative. Here are actual numbers...we're on page 4 of this topic, and 10 different people have made a comment..on page 4 alone. That is more than TWENTY ONE of the posts appearing on Page 1 of RBO. It doesn't need to be about rodbuilding how to's to be interesting, which is why so many people keep coming i
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Thanks for teaching that to me Mike, I appreciate it. One day I'll teach you about monkey see monkey do - when people see a hot topic they click on it and quite often come out of teh wood work to post on it. Just look at how much interest this post recieved - you're still posting on it, and Danny has been a member for 10 years and he's racking up his total post count to 9 with half of them in thi
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