Karen is good as gold... Puts up with us guys calling wanting detailed info about stuff. Need a wife that listens like that. I fired the last one.
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Appreciate input guys. Its for a Marine budy who fishes surf in outer banks. I live in atlanta area and fish solely freshwater and make my own poles. But I learned rod building in mid 70s living in Pacifica Ca buipding surf rods. I was 15 hanging around the Coastside #2 baitshop and the older guys took me under their wings. To my best knowledge, he just wanted a 12 ft 2 piece rod for 2-6 oz a
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Looking at Seeker SSU120. Need a good all around stick thats not to heavy in your hands.
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Im calling and leaving messages again. ?
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Cork.
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When the rod building craft lost Andy's creative and high quality minded input, this craft lost a vital innovator. To me, a guy thats been out of rod making for some time, his abscence and loss of input is very obvious. I miss him. Andy come back....
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Ive been away from rod building for sometime. I take it that Andy Dear and Lamar fishing is no more. They sold off all their inventory to other vendors. And that superb burl cork is gone with only the remnants here and there remaining. Is this correct?
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Are the "originals" even made anymore?
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You definately have a ph issue. I left message 4 days ago and have called 4-5 times a day all week. Something isnt working. Ill try again in the am.
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Does Rod Dancer have a ph #? I couldnt find one. No one answers the ph at Bingham. Been trying for days...
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Ive been out of rod building for a while. Do they still make the Lamar burl composte cork rings anymore? Copano etc?
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Can anyone direct me to a SOLID source for these rings? Thanks
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Brother in law is leaning hard again to build him a flyrod now. He fly fishes the creeks in middle PA for trout. He wants an 3 piece, 8 ft, 4 wt pole. Since I care about him, and also since its his money, my time, I want thim to have the best tool. Guys, give me your best advice, I'm not entirely sold on Gatti. I'd like to give CTS a try but Andy does'nt respond to my e mails. I'd probably have t
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I've always used the heat stick glue until my last build. I simply got tired of tips working loose at the most inappropriate times. I used on my last build 5 min epoxy. But I must confess, I hate to think of what could happen should I ever need to replace that tip cause it is on there brother. Its only a 4.5 .
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Duane, thats awesome fella! Got to tell ya, I'm nervous as ---- about doing this. Especially w/5 min epoxy.. Tilt the rod up, in a dryer and just let it flow and fill up cavity? Oh man, I see potential disaster. It is times like this that I wish I could learn, hands on from a Grand Master of this craft. In person.
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Once cured, do you sand/shape the ramp before wrapping it up?
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What kind of epoxy and do you add dye to it?
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For freshwater striper & hybrid fishing the Seeker @#$%& 706 S glass is the best I've ever used, particularly for live bait. Most of my fish are gonna be 5-15 lbs. I do not troll.
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Hey Dan, yea that helps fella. First time is always a little challenging when doing something new like the spinning guide concept. I've adhered to the rules as close as I possible could. Lots of tweaking. In the end, I have acheived the two axis for the line,anchor guide is good to go. Static load looks real good. Quite a bit of space between the first and second guide. I'm not used to that but t
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I'm caught in a 25 vs 30 situation.
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If you have a spinning reel with a spool lip diameter of 1 3/4 inches do I still want to use a #25 guide or should I bump it up to a 30? Also, if going with the concept guide way of doing things, what other sizes of conventional spinning guides should come off of the 30 to meet the remaining #6 fly type guides?
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If you were going to use a hook keep on a light spinning rod, whats the best one to go with?
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10-4 Mike, I'm going with your recommendation. I just needed a very good idea with the guide sizes.. The idea I take it is to get the line down fast to the blank into a straight axis-right? Don't know what I'd do w/o this forum sometimes... You gave me my starting poiint. The blank will tell me the rest. Thanks
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What about this set up guys, Amtak Titan spinning guides, 25,16,12,10, and then 5, ring size 6 fly guides then the tip, also a 6 ???
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Thanks Cap'n!
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Old school here needing help. The concept spinning guide set up looks like it uses a number of the newer fly type guides at the end? Anyway, I'm building a seven ft 4-8lb test bass rod, light fast action. I'm looking at using Amtak Titans. I need to know the sizes from biggest to tip and how many? where do I make the transition to fly type guides and how many of them vs conventional spinning gui
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OK guys, please tell me the secret to packing thread on diamonds? You know, when the thread on diamond slips away from one another? How do you make-em stay??? I use the reverse end of a single edge razor blade and have for years. Is there another tool I should use for packing?
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Hey Spence, Just wondering about their overall quality etc.
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Can anyone tell me about their blanks?
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Hey Mike, I was looking at them on Andy's site. Andy Dear has been real good to me and his word means a lot. I have read online where it takes a month or more to get a blank in from NZ. What is the delivery time on a CTS?
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