MSP 634 5' 1/4" fast med lt. lure 1/8 - 5/8 oz butt .353 tip 5.5 From the 1985 blank catalog.
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MSP 725 6' Fast action med power lure 3/8 to 3/4 oz. butt .650 tip 5 .5 could not find the MSP624, but there is a 634 listed if you want the info for that.
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Hot pink with a white trim band.
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On large guides like that, I do as Roger does and some judicious use of my belt sander.
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Showing my age here, but what is a spybait?
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Use Gudebrod if you can find it, I have never had it fade. Use CP too! !
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If you can find a good set of the Mildrum Tungsten Carbide guides that would be my choice. Nearly indestructible if kept clean after use. Not sure how SIC would hold up.
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The easiest and probably the best way is to find a section of rod blank that fits the taper of the butt and fit it as a sleeve. Epoxy in place and build your handle and reel seat over it. An alternative method is to find a piece of blank that fits the ID of the butt and epoxy it in place.
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I would be more concerned about the way the rod casts than about such minimal weight/
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You can buy white nylon caps for round chair/table legs at many stores like Lowes' or H D in various ID's. They are easily dyed using Rit fabric dye. Made many of them over the years.
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If you are using a beautiful exotic wood insert, I don't know why you would want to cover it up with a decal?
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If you have access to a tube cutter you can make your own slip rings out of copper or brass pipe. You can finish/polish them however you chose. The tape that Roger suggested will also work fine.
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With the plated brass, it sounds like salt water corrosion. You might try taking a leather or wood mallet and tap all around the seat, much like you would with a stuck jar lid. Be careful if you use heat, the blank may come out of the ferrule leaving the ferrule still stuck.
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If started and done properly, there will be no rapid transition. I have been doing and developing dec. wraps for over 40 years, and too much tension is the first problem to be conquered.
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Wrapping from the tip to the butt isn't going to cure his problem.
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Laying the thread on the cross wraps should not be done tight. When you have too much tension spiraling the thread down the blank it will not be possible to adjust subsequent threads after they are layed. Sounds like you are stretching the thread. Your end wraps should be fairly tight but not overly so.
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Roger Wilson has excellent experience in this field.
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Out of stock may be true, but then they shouldn't tell him it will be filled and shipped that day!!
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Don't start applying the epoxy at the edge of the wrap, rather start applying within the wrap and as the rod is turning kind of push the epoxy towards the edge of the wrap, it will flow out in a straight line if done properly.
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The Olympic Peninsula Rod Builders on Face Book would be one.
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Take it outside and cast different weight lures or weights from it and see how it performs.
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What line an lure rating are you looking for? That would help a lot.
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Who made the blank and what is the model #? And what do you intend to fish for?
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Hi Tom, I was just wondering how you are making out with all the rain down there? Doing well I hope!!
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Sorry Gary, just couldn't help myself. The devil made me do it!! LOL
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Fishing!!
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I may have one, I will have to check tomorrow. Not home now.
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Roger it is possible to crush the blank with too much tension on the thread!! I did it once about 40 years ago. I was in a hurry for the gudebrod nitro-cellulose CP to dry, so I put the rod in a window sill with the sun shining through and started working on another rod. I heard a snap and looked at the rod in the window and it had been crushed right at the wrap. I don't think that this wou
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Look at the ends of the break and see if there is any evidence of crushing.
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I thought anodizing was for aluminum? May be I am wrong?
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