I am following along also and hope it doesn't go private as well. In the end.....the butt end of course.....is going to be how an individual senses or feels in his own hand and that is what you will not be able to quantify. However, data is good and I am looking forward to it all. Unfortunately I had a break in my rod maker mag and also re-loocated. I do not know if I have the magazine with the i
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I think you can splice it and repair it and still have the original rod you wanted to begin. There are instructions somewhere I read about repairing a rod. You select a slightly weaker splice piece to splice with....which will end up maintaining the orininal feel. Ah......found it. Go up to top and click on the LIBRARY and you will get a list. The last one on the list is "Rod Repair" A
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I was specifically looking at: jannsnetcraft.com/special-handle-kits/ The Tennessee 12" handle and the Texalium's. I am not sure what a Tennessee handle really is. Spin or fly. But what I want to do is have a 12'' handle with no reel seat and slip rings to secure the reel. I know I can do this with cork. I don't understand the 12" Tennessee tubular....unless it is just a foregrip.
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I have seen grips in online catalogs that look like tubes with a piece of cork on each end. I would like to try one of these on a fly rod....say a 12" grip. Do they come with instructions? How do you mount them to a fly rod.....and then....how would you mount a fly reel to it? Jim
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I used to have to label things with a P-Touch in Telecom work. If I didn't cover it with clear fingernail polish they would come off. Clear fingernail polish kept them in position. Don't know how that would do on a rod but the reason to use clear in telecom was so it didn't show. Jim
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I am a beginner. Haven't built my first rod yet, but have bought several kits and blanks and have way too many ideas about it. Soooo....I guess I'm hooked....heck, already reeled in! My dumb questions.......on the threadless wraps......I think that is a mis-namer. Your not wrapping anything. I think it should be just threadless guide mounting. uh.....I would assume this technique would req
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I have never grilled with a rotissiere motor. So, there are probably some good ones out there. However, a friend loaned me his rod wrapper/dryer made with a rotissiere motor. His contraption was awkward and clumsy. But the big deal was the noise it continuously made. I wouldn't have that thing in my house....I would drop kick it. BTW I checked it and it was 6 rpm. I like that speed, but I would
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Go to "flyanglersonline.com" and on the home page click on the search blank to put your cursor there. Type in "mouse fly" and then click search, then click on item number 2. Note, in all of the above, when actually entering something leave off the quoation marks.
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Maybe you could practice....do it a few times trying one coat, two coats, reversing direction....etc. on a shiny black arrorw from Wal Mart ( $1.75) before you do it on the actual blank piece.
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Rogue makes their own blanks. Go to roguerods.com and click on "download rod blanks catalog" and you will see them come up on your screen. Well, you will see their stock with prices is what I meant. Gem
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Leon, I probably don't totally understand your set up that will rotate 180 degrees every 15 minutes. What that sounds to me is it will rotate to a point and then set for 15 minutes, rotate 180 and set and THEN rotate right back to the first setting for 15 minutes? I think I would rather have a continous turning motor. But then I haen't done it yet. I bout an 18 rpm motor for for $8. Of course I
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Joe, yup Dorber has the 4.5 fly rod blanks as several have said already. I been thinking about them. Fact is I am going to buy their 10' 3wt full flex blank. I think they have their price list backwards. The column for buying ONE blank is a cheaper price than their column showing price for 24 or more. Anywhoooo.....I think they would be great to build rods for 5-6 year old children of your own o
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I am a rookie so forgive me. I went to REC site to look before commenting but couldn't find a slideband cork handle. I have a 35 year old rod with a cork and slideband reel seat...can use it as a spinning rod or a fly rod. The reel feet fit into the slide bands perfectly. Have never had a reel come loose but confess I don't mean to say I have used it for all those years. But it sounds like you pu
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Nick, I went to Cabela's website for Fish Eagle Blanks and they don't even show a 10' blank....let alone an 11'-6"? Where did I go wrong? Gem In fact....where do you get a 10'-6" blank? Is it a 3wt-4wt-....mid flex...full flex? Modulus? I wanna build one.
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I have been to several rod blank sellers already and have not found even one selling a 10' fly rod blank anymore. This takes time to access their site and purview their entire inventory. I can keep going on like this forever. Don't want to. Could someone direct me to where I can purchase a 10' 3wt two piece fly rod blank in mid flex or full flex action? If so, thanks in advance. Gem
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I am a fairly recent subscriber to the magazine and therefore have NONE of the back issues on the system. Sooooo....I would benefit terrificly from this new website. I cannot afford to send off money every time I want a back issue. And believe me I really want them. BUT......'methinks you are being far far too generous.! I can only imagine, as I didn't do the work, You and Hans have done it. But
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this is going way way back n memory for me. Point is I don't remember the issue of Consumer Reports but they did a report on fly rods and spin rods. Approximately 35 years ago I bought a Garcia Conolon 4 star combination spinrod/fly rod, 4 piece or 5 piece back pack rod. Still have it. So.....the idea of a spin/fly rod not very new. Not to pop a bubble...just fyi. Also Eagle Claw used to sell a c
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I really don't think you should be talking to that local rod builder at all anymore..... Use this board.....you will get "the right stuff"
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Too keep the foot from sliding forward you might wrap tape above the eye.....right where you want the eye to be, so that it cannot slide forward while you are wrapping the thread on. Gem
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Iffen you want to build some economical rods to give away, like if you are too poor like me to be magnanimous......check with Neal, a sponsor of this site. He has som 99 cents blanks! Good enough to build for chairities and give away I would think and you not out big bucks to do it. Gem
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Yeah, Bill.....guess that is what I was trying to say......I know, sometimes I ramble, but my point was my pvc tubes warped. Not the rods, but it is not fun to look at your store bought rod cases and see them shaped in a curve when you go to put a rod in them. Yes, if I could afford it I would go aluminum and not plastic pipe. Gem
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Tom, No snottiness intended here at all so pls don't mis-read the message. Just that I am so curious I want to build different rods to see how they work. Everyone up here uses a 9' from a float tube and says a 10 or 10.5 not good. I think it would be, therefore I am going to build one to find out for myself. I am going to build a 6'-6" rod for a stream just to see how it works. I am going
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Bill, I've been advised on my 9' 4wt, from what seems to be a pretty knowledgeable fellow to use #6 ceramics which I think equates to a #1 wire snake guide. He has already done it and states he knows for a fact it works good. He stated if he had had some 5.5's he would have even gone down to that.....and that may be his next try. So, icw sizes....on a 4wt apparently #6 ceramic is good. (BTW I
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Ok guys....may I sneak in. I don't travel away from home to fish. Too much fishing available here. Don't hike, don't back pack in, don't mail out. I just want a good rod protection case to put in the car or truck and go fish. The canvas covered inexpensive ones with pvc pipe....from Wal-Mart.....uh....not too sure I care for them. I bought several for me and my wife and spent over night at a lak
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There's also electrical screwdrivers and variable speed drills. My battery operated Black and Decker screw driving tool that will fold to ninety degrees in the middle seems to run forever. I haven't used it much.....but I have yet to have to recharge it. There's also slow speed barbecue rotissiere motors. The one loaned to me was 6 rpm but not variable. Just a thought...what ever you rig up.....i
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Sorry Mike, In Conjunction With.......in accordance to.......in reference to......in regards to.....etc.... Jim..............there's just too many Jim's........I need to change my name to Gem. ".............and remember son, if you aren't the lead dog, the view never changes"
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@#$%&, Thanks for your post. It is very good. I don't have a drying motor....yet. I thought they just plug into a/c. Sooooo my thought was just wire in the sewing machine pedal speed controller....not the motor itself. Just the speed controller. If the drying motor runs off dc from the transformer plugged into the wall outlet....obliviously wouldn't work. Thanks for your words. You probably just
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Thanks Mick. Yeah, that's where I found it at Wal-Mart.....in the gun cleaning section. Sounds like a fun chore to me....and I don't usually consider chores fun. 'tis just fun learning how to do something. Think I spent my career in paperwork.....pretty new at working with "stuff". Therefore the info on the boards really helpful. Thank you for the info. I use it. the info I mean Jim
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Footnote....Putter....you cool dude. Everyone likes a little a-- now and then, but no one likes a wise a--! Just kiddin'.....a little bit more brevity......actually in my case more of a smart aleck remark. But you are okie dokie pokie. Sometimes too much serious talk on a BB and never any brevity. It's a good little ditty. Surprising how a sponaneous grin on my face relaxes me for a bit. Than
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I don't think I would try a dimmer switch. Made for a light bulb....not for running a motor and constant changing. Doubt seriously if it would even handle the amps a motor would pull. On the other hand a little drying motor might not pull many amps...I haven't ever looked into it. But.........how about shopping flea markets and goodwill thrift stores for junk......and therefore the foot pedal con
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