Apart from the post above, I was thinking I'll need to post a thread explaining about Hitena since we are quite new to US market. I'll do that sometime soon. Thanks.
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Apart from the post above, I was thinking I'll need to post a thread explaining about Hitena since we are quite new to US market. I'll do that sometime soon. Thanks.
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Hi Dongsu, I'm not sure if this is appropriate for this thread (no pun intended! lol) but I'll answer to your question since you asked. Our Japanese office is in Nagoya Province. When you see a Hitena products in Asia, you should find their address on the package. If you still need it, just send me a mail. I'll let you know. It's unfortunate that you didn't hear our Airbraid main line, Devil l
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Hi Phil, Samples arrived in the States and on the way to our warehouse. We'll ship them as soon as we get so everybody can receive hopefully before Thanksgiving week. Let me share some feedback we got from best rod building shops in Japan. It is purely from builder's standpoint, - Consistent tension is maintained due to the elasticity, holding tightly on the rod - Wrapping process is much
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Over-elastic -> rubber band, non-elastic -> wire. We need something in between. I guess this was one of the reasons why we started using thread for guide wrapping originally.
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Hi John and Phil, Both of you have good points. Wrapping thread has to be stretchable and elastic but should not stretch forever. We cannot use rubber band which is much more stretchable but cannot provide enough elastic force to hold. Also, we cannot use wire in place of thread because it is non-stretchable and cannot generate any elastic force though wire itself is much stronger than anythin
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Hi everybody, This is Gabriel of Hitena. Stretch is a very important property of a wrapping thread. Without it, there is theoretically no chance for restoring force to kick in to hold the guide rings. Both stretch and restoration is equally important to generate the holding power against guide rings. This is the reason why we try to maintain consistent thread tension during rod wrapping. To
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LOL... but high demand is still better than low demand...
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Hi everybody, Here you can see STWRAP sample photo that will be shipped to you next week. Due to an explosive demand, almost all sizes of samples ran out but you can still send me a mail for samples if you can wait till Dec. Thanks.
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Hi Rex, We'll be working on an array of colors after we see our blacks work for builders. Should be great to have a rod with local school's athletic color wrapped! Appreciate for your kind words.
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Hi All, Forgot to mention that samples can be sent to US addresses only. For those who requested samples from overseas, I'm sorry that I didn't mention it earlier. Thanks.
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Thanks everybody, Appreciated for your interest. Demand is overwhelming. By the way, if there is anyone who didn't get my email reply after you sent me a mail, sorry but pls contact me again. I replied all the mails but if there is anyone who didn't get my reply, then I should have missed it out. Just want to make sure everybody get the samples safely. The event is going on. You can als
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Hi David, We'll carry a bunch of products - hopefully all products we'll be selling in US which is abt 2,500 ~ 3,000 items including braid lines, fly tying thread, terminal tackles, hooks, .. etc. Pls visit our booth, I'm looking forward to showing you all tackles we have in our bag. We only produce premium tackles that is the best in the market. You'll see a lot of items you have never seen b
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Hi Nuno, We are very likely to have a booth at ICRBE but didn't make final decision yet coz we have some other dealer show around that date. We'll make separate announcement once we have decided. We look forward to seeing you there. Thanks.
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Hi Dennis, Sample will be arranged for you. We have mass production and stocking of B thread soon. Thanks.
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Hi David, I'll arrange AA sample for you. If you are interested, we have new Fly Tying Thread out by the end of the year. You can easily guess how the quality of this tying thread would be once you have tried our wrapping thread. Thanks.
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Hi Norman, Appreciate for you interest. You'll have completely new experience with our thread. Pls contact me..
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Thanks for warm welcome Lynn,.
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Hi Ken, Appreciate your advice. Understand what you mean. Black is just our first color to start with but not the last. Thanks.
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Hi Everybody, My name is Gabriel of Hitena. I’m glad we are new sponsor of the forum. I just wanted to introduce our new rod wrapping thread - STWRAP (pronounced /st?æp/). STWRAP is completely different from the thread you are using now and we’ll guarantee your surprise once you try it. Let me explain a bit about the background of this product. We are rod builder ourselves. When we star
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