thanks alot buddy
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i searched the forum for lightest reel seat and wondered what a sbss looks like. its supposed to be in vol 12- 14 of rodmakers magazine
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are the new blanks painted like the rx8's ?
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did'nt somebody just permagloss guides on without any thread at all. where can i get some 00 thread?
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what ross said. my favorite was the gloomis imx 9000
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i was thinking about trying it. has anyone ever weighed it?
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bill i think usually it does, especially in flyrods and fishing reels that i have purchased. do you know which blank they are talking about?
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fastest fly blank and reasonable price do not belong in the same sentence. i think sage has a new method blank has to be expensive.
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thanks can i have the butt diameter and tip sizes also. no fishing today?
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just looked at the hydra website and they say they spend most of their time in bassboats so they don't have all their ng blank weights listed. has anyone got a weight or specs on their dropshot blanks bt842ds or bt843ds
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try now
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try again
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so fuji doesn't make a torzite single foot fly guide yet. on the torzite website they do have a 3.5 listed and what looks like a size 4 tip which i have been waiting for.
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i understand but i think i may be using the smallest guides now. i use a sz 16 stripper than a sz 10 or 8 whatever works to sz 4 or 3.5 runners.
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thanks jim the reduction guide groups are what i was looking for. can i see the original pics on your website
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on the fuji torzite site they say you can use a size smaller guide because of the torzites being thinner than sics hence farther off the blank but only to size 12 though. my question is what are the smallest sizes i can get away with on a kr concept spinning rod that will still cast adequately . i want to save on weight but also some money because they are sure to be pricey
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tom do you have any more dope on shikari you can share with us and does this new company have a name yet ?
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whats the deal with the iron feather 711 tip as they provide you with it, because its so small? did they have to make their own tip for the blank hence the price? i wonder if its a solid tip like the old clemens perigee blanks
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thanks sherlock: i heard atc advanced tubular composites bought the shikari mandrels then went out of business themselves. we need an investigator in california to find out who this new company is thats in the mix.
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they also have 2 spin jigs and a popping blank at 1.2 oz that i want to believe anyone try these? jim couldn't find that blank you mention on the phenix site, is it a k2?
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i think we need a sherlock holmes to investigate this. maybe someone that lives in oklahoma to start.
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tom go to your left and click on mhx rod blanks. i just said they must have made a mistake but i want to find a 7-1" ds blank that weighs 1.1 oz
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has anyone ever had a shxi blank and more importantly what did it weigh? i think they were 64 million modulus blanks. were they real or mythical as i need answers
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i knew the weights couldn't be right as they had the longer blank lighter. i like when a blank company has nothing to hide and list their blank weights but i now wonder if any of the weights listed on their site are true
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as i perused the sponsors to the left i came across 2 high modulus mhx dropshot blanks a 6-10" and a 7-1" that according to them weigh 1.3 and 1.1 ounces respectively . surely this is a mistake as both blanks have over a half an inch butt measurement. but if this is true i will be ordering tomorrow.
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i am kind of disappointed no one else besides me and you wants to talk shikari lore. i guess its time to turn the page, let go and forget about them and enjoy my new nfc's and my phenix rods. but i do need a new ds rod, hmm terry have you ever had a shxi blank as i would like to build a 7000. here we go, absence makes the heart grow fonder i guess.
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very interesting.
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i have built many shikari p popping and phs hotshot blanks before that were light weight and shx blanks were my favorite for many years. where can i learn about shikari history and their mandrels that nfc supposedly now has.
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if you have a lucky rod stick with it. i have a gloomis 1380 noodle rod i built long ago that is ready for its third set of guides. the first set were double foot aluminum guides from italy that were light as a feather that i literally wore out. i then put some fuji high frame hardloy match guides and fished many years but they seem awful heavy now. i might have to try some light weight recoil gu
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i have a psj 702 shx blank that weighs 2.6 ounces which is shocking to me since i have always considered shikari shx blanks light weight and on par with gloomis imx'es.
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