Thanks Greg, I feel more better. For real. Jim
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I couldn't have seen the "recent" article on guide feet prep as I just received my first issue of the magazine. Jim Williams
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I am kind of new to TROUT fly fishing. I fished a little as a kid by myself with a $6.75 six foot fiberglass for bluegill. Now retired. A whole bunch of trout lakes up here. The local fly club members fish the lakes a lot and the word is to cast as far as you can and find the good count down number and retreive. Well....I bought an Orvis thinking it was a 9' 6" rod. It plainly says Length 9
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Greg & David, Good to see your post. Not stealing it....but it helped me to read this thread. I am building my first rod, and sorta new to fly fishing. Everyone up here uses a 9' rod. I was wondering about a 10' for pontoon float tube, or pontoon boat. So far, kinda been told it's not a good idea. I was already going to ask how light I could go with a 10' for lakes. You just answered tha
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Thanks guys. I hate to ask so many questions of you all. But, that is sorta what this board is about. There just is no sense in asking anyone up here, even in my fly club because none of them know as much as you guys. Although they will act like they do. All the information is printed and kept for reference. Thanks to everybody, Mike, Eric, Buddy, all of you that take time out to help someone els
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Wow, cool, quick answers. I just forgot to go off line....came back to computer and decided to check. So cool. I will find out what he used. Iffen I think it will hold.....I will go ahead and finish it wit Buddy's instructions. I do remember way last Nov when he did it....he said now set it down....ie set the rod on the floor and lean the tip up against the wall and let it set overnight. Perhaps
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A friend glued on my reel seat on my first rod I am building. He got glue on the metal threads, AND it seeped out from under the cork and left a rubbery glob on the reel seat. I cleaned it all off, wondering why the glob didn't set up hard like an epoxy. He's a dear older friend and don't want to even tell him. He was only helping me by showing me how to build a rod. As I said before though, I go
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James, Your comment above that all vendors follow standard descriptions......for tip flex, medium flex, full flex, or fast, moderate fast, fast, extra fast action all follow a similar taper.......uh.....big opening here I think. I think some advertise their rods as fast action when they really are not.....just for the fluff. Just oversimplified I suppose, but with all the anomalies of each mana
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I have asked this question of a vendor. His reply was that you cannot compare wire snake guide sizes to ceramic sizes. However he would relate them as: Snake - Ceramic 1.............6 2.............7 3.............8 4.............10 I don't have any to compare with, but I will have Monday. JIm Williams
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I used finger nail polish remover. My friend put my reel seat on while he was on the phone and I didn't even get to watch him do it. He started with the glue, I got the phone call and he couldn't stop and wait for me. Anyway I since found glue/bond....whatever it is in my reel seat threads. I used the fingernail polish remover and it seemed to soften it. BTW there is a neato little clip on magnif
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Thank you men. There is nothing better than word of mouth recommendation. I have had far too many experiences by just picking a vendor out of the yellow pages so to speak. I am quite interested in all this technical stuff. I intend to learn all about it because I find it just plain fun. And I like nothing more than to come up with an MOP. Method of Procedure. Like Tom referred to and painting by
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The only blank I have, I heard my friend order it over the phone, way last november. All I heard him say was a tip flex, IM6 Factory grade 1, 9' 4wt. I know IM6 refers to modulus. but I've only heard of IM6 & 7. How would you order a higher modulus? Also I have read about the ERN of a rod? How do you order a rod and specify all these things.....should I just be asking these questions of a r
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Thanks Don and Gerry. I hadn't been anywhere where the guide on ferrule was explained but I figured it would be ok. After all, it has the bottom section stuck up in it. Mine's gonna work out just as you, Don, said about a tad more thread wrap on the bottom guide. Since that is indeed ok.....it will be perfect. Thanks....I feel more better now. To all you guys some of your words and sentences are
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I read comments about a guide on every ferrule. I just have a two piece blank. However the 54" guide comes out on the ferrule. The bottom tip of the guide foot is 1/2 inch from the actual end of the hollow tip section. So if I wrap this per the 54" mark....I will have about 5/8" of wrap on the bottom of the guide....leaving 1/16th to the actual hollow end of the ferrule. This leave
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Buddy, You haven't answered yet? It's been 3 minutes! Can't wait! <grin> Al's comments for the stripper guides were that he uses a 12 and a 10 "Spinning Rod" type ceramic guide for the stripper guides. Is there a difference in a 10 & 12 Spinning rod ceramic guide and a 10 & 12 ceramic fly rod guide? BTW I sent this to Buddy because he @#$%& me.....uh.......helped
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Buddy, I just re-read your post icw light weight rods and single foot guides. Now I got's anuther question. I read Al Campbell's rod building series on rod building and he would used single foot guides. He said he NEVER uses an oversized tip. But....his guide size list for a 9' light rod = (I assume a 1 tip top) then 11122334 (single foot WIRE snake guides) with a 10 & a 12 ceramic str
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No Mike, I didn't take it wrong, I took it at face value and went back and re-read....uh....what I read. And that is when I found I skipped or missed the point it is indeed not a finish. The way he wrote the book I thought he was saying he just used three coats of color preserver and by using three coats he didn't need the epoxy. I fully understand the whole deal now thanks to you.....above l typ
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Domenic, Now that I think I know how to finish it, you raise the other issue I have. But I know what to do. The thing is I don't know if my thread is NCP or not. Sooooo......I am going to use color preserver and then epoxy it. Thanks Domenic Jim You guys are so cool.
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Thanks for the info. I have luckily ended up in my retirement 5 minutes from a nice 2 mile spring fed trout stream that has holdover trout. Biggest taken 33 (Not by me) 33 inches. I caught over a 100 trout averaging 15 inches and 1.5 pounds between October and January on my 6wt 9' fly rod. I do indeed want to build a light weight rod to fish this stream and the single foot tip really sounded like
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Perhaps I don't understand color preserver, but I think I do. It is to preserve the color of the thread. But, L.A.Garcia's book, page 34.....he states he does prefer using Color Preserver and Thread Sealer from Roger Seiders at Flex Coat. Then shows a picture.....and states.....of the three examples: "In the next photograph the wraps are identical, that is a black wrap with a gold tr
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Tom, or others, would you please answer my latest four questions on the topic Kazillion Spine Questions so I can stop taking Zanax and go to sleep at night. I am kinda a newbie to this board and since the topic is now on page two....I don't know if anyone is going to read it. If my own answers are correct to those 4 questions I will have finally settled it in my mind. Jim Williams
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ICW with the comment about newbies and spline/spine. You can find it referred to as spline in books, so is not a newbie dumb word. Probably part of all the mystery. I wanted to know about the spine, and thanks to this board....now I know. Now that I know, I find I don't care! Thanks to Tom and others I understand the elusive spine. Now I don't even want to know about it. I just want to find the n
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Terrific tip about forming the single foot to match the rod. Thanks for that. Somewhere I read a post where a person said he ALWAYS uses a single foot guide for a tip top on his light rods, so it must work. It sounds a little odd, and, I have looked at some single foot guides and they don't have the same shape that a tip top has.....I would very careful about which single guide I chose to use if
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I replied but wasn't logged in. Guess it isn't going to get posted. So.....nuther reply. Appreciate the answers and Domenic, the "football" shaped feet is exackery what mine look like, excellent description. Nuther question though, I also read you can seal the guide feet three ways. Varnish, epoxy, or Color Preserver/Sealer (3 coats). The pics I saw in L.A. Garcia's book, "How to B
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I have heard of using a single foot guide as a tip top for reduced weight? Any comments? Good idea? Bad idea? Oh...this was in a message about 3-4 wt light stream rods. JIm Williams
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I read a book. It showed snake guide feet sorta long and rectangular. He filed them down to look better. I filed all mine down and taped them on. Ready to wrap thread. I looked at my Orvis 9' 6wt guides. There's so much epoxy on each foot you cannot even see the thread, let alone the guide foot. I feel like I wasted my time filing down each foot, and made it more difficult to sit the guide on the
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Mr. Kirkman, Thank you for the great reply. What a class man you must be. Also thanks to Mark and all the others for great explanations. Too many to quote. But in general.....I understand the spine now. In fact it is such as I suspected. But......too many comments can be made which are meant to be precise and end up vague or questionable. For example....you read comments that you support the rod
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I find the suggestion to disregard the spine in building a rod to be a very difficult idea to buy into. Is the EFFECTIVE spine the stiffest axis of the rod? Reading FAQ's number 2 tells you how to find the effective spine. Question 5 step 1. says spine on top - more power on forward cast......why is that? Step 2 says spine on bottom "puts the spine in strong play on the forward cast"? A
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Sorry, I can't research ten thousand messages which may have covered my questions. But, all I have read so far does not answer my questions, just creates more. I just don't understand all I know.........? I have read that there is a soft spine AND a hard spine AND separate from boaf of them, there is just a stiffer plane of the blank! uh.....I have so many questions I don't know where to start. B
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Thanks everyone for advice. I sent a post yesterday thanking all but I don't see it here today. Probably another one of my boo boos. Anywhooo, all the tips really helped out a lot. I have been wafering on building this rod all winter long.....decision constipation. I read all the posts and boy, for some reason, just bouncing it off this board I am relaxed and ready to go. It is a 9' 4wt from JJ K
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