Feelin better about it all... I haven't seen it in the sun yet but so far so good I think... Lots of bubbles and stubble. Epoxy is just the worst haha. Gonna be an hour with a razor to put it right for the second coat. I tried this with a brush and the whole time I wanted my spatula.
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Tom Kirkman Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Make sure to do this in 3 stages, otherwise at > full load the tip and mid sections will be > straight and appear to need very few guides. > > .............. Just when I think I'm starting to get a grip I read this hahaha.....now back to rereading to make sense of it lol...
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Thankfully my ADD made sure I didn't spend days trying to use the fibonocci sequence to lay out my guides but I am for sure going to try the FS to 27.5 inches just to see what it looks like for the next static test. I kinda do wonder what such thinking might result in were a person to build a FS into a rod blank. For now I'm going to concentrate on laying one thread next to another... I got th
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Michael Ward Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I have not weighted rods before - but when I built > my challenge rod for the IBRC, that 7'6 blank was > SOOOO tip-heavy, and building it as a general > purpose bass rod I felt it had to have some > balance - even with a 10" handle. I ended up > needing to put about 1.5 oz in the butt to g
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It is fascinating really and hard to debunk it seems? I did run across some folks talking about tying up "Fibonacci Leaders" for fly fishing. There is even a calculator for them. I tried doing the math to layout the guides on this rod and it looked good for the first five guides and quickly gets out of hand....for the first few guides tho I was like "well @#$%&...". I start
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Thanks for the kind words, Assuming I am still freefalling down this rabbit hole I'd really like to make an effort to attend the expo next year. Always find such venues intimidating but there is also so much there to see. It was interesting seeing the process and getting some insights into the industry. I would for sure try and build again for next year. Cheers,
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Thought I might play a bit of show and tell with my entries for the challenge and the microwave challenge. I built two rods and collectively named them "Solstice". The AT microwave challenge being "Solstice - Midnight Sun" and the IRBC entry being "Solstice - Northern Lights". These are also gift rods for my two sons once they get back from AT headquarters. &q
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Apologies for jacking the thread a bit there...
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Awesome Kevin! Thanks for those...
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Kevin Fiant Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Bob Foster Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Wow @ Kevin, > > > > Sounds altogether like a win win situation. > > > > You're going to love the DC777 wrapper. I added > a > > tension rod and shortened the hand rest by 1/2
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Wow @ Kevin, Sounds altogether like a win win situation. You're going to love the DC777 wrapper. I added a tension rod and shortened the hand rest by 1/2 to give a place to set my epoxy tray on the left side of the slide. Did a couple other things too but what a great score and experience for you! Cheers,
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You’re very kind Les, Sometimes I think about what things were like pre internet. I watched it come in and my first experience with it was dialing into a Maine number, from the Yukon, to reach a dial up modem and you had to speak Unix to move around the directories and chat channels and such. The info was there but it wasn’t much and was hard to find. Previous to that it was all libraries and
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Would love to have gone to this. I will say that, it is a bit frustrating not being able to get any more than a cursory look at the rods in the challenge as well as the peoples choice rods. Kind of noticed that from pervious years as well. Likely this event is a bear to organize and keep on track but it would be nice to be able to get a look at the entrants in more detail somehow. I know I spent
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Laying out the guides and looking at placement. If I'm being honest I have no real clue what I'm looking at. Having done this a few times and using various sources for guide placement I wonder what the deal is with testing and adjusting the guide layout. I mean it seems I never see any real glaring problems with layouts. Am I missing something? For instance, on this rod the layout info I have hav
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Hi Les, The 100 percent guarantee thing would make a good t shirt. Perfectionism is kind of a where you stand depends on where you sit thing. I used to work for the telco up here as an installer and we always did as good a job as we could and usually we were not hurried so we could spend the time to really make an installation look nice. Fast forward to contracting doing the same work and i
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Thanks for the tips Norm. Mostly the arbors themselves don't slide but more the top layers of the tape, once saturated with epoxy, smoosh sideways if you push too hard when assembling. I may try the super glue trick. Finding super glue is handy to have around the bench. I find if I cover all the arbors at once (the ones I can place without hampering assembly) the ends of the saturated arbors
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Having achieved what I didn't know was the plan all along in going full satin with the grips I found myself ready for gluing up the grips and reel seat. I like drywall tape for the arbors. I know many use masking tape but, for me, knowing the epoxy will saturate the drywall tape all the way to the blank gives me a feeling of security. I cut it into strips using a single sided razor.
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Yesterday was a battle of not really knowing what I am doing and just trying what makes sense at the time and trying not to have the situation escalate past low level panic. I got into a cycle of wet sanding and scotchbrite pad and reapplying the PG only to have every coat go sideways in some way. I am learning thing though. I have learned the grey foam paint brushes do a good job and were it not
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Torin Koski Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > First things first. Your thread work is second > to none! The other thing is that when I apply my > epoxy, after I stop rotation and wick away the > drips, I do the 180 degree flip process - every > minute - for 1 full hour before I employ the dryer > motor. If I don't do this flip techniqu
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David Baylor Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Bob, I think the finish in the last two photos, > looks beautiful. Like you, I'm not a good enough > kind of guy. I am real picky when it comes to most > things, so I can understand your consternation > when things aren't exactly as we hoped. As you > said in an earlier post, we do the best we
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Kevin Fiant Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Bob - I am at the Expo and sat in on a session > done by the "Munich Rod Man", Mark Krouse I > believe is his name. It was basically a Q/A > session and we got into the topic of finish epoxy. > One thing mentioned by Mr Krouse was that Epoxy > will generally be dry to the touch on the
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Thanks for that Mark, If you play the light over the grip the problem becomes pretty obvious. Kind of wish I’d left the sleeping dog lie as the first coat had one small dry spot the I could have semi hidden by placing it in line with the reel foot and one would never have seen it in normal use. The first coat was actually lovely and even as I say that, in my head, I hear “You should have see
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I will echo others in gratitude expressed for all the work going into this. Data management can be a bear. Cheers to this effort and all who collectively drive it
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Hey Steve, If I’m being honest i’m Not sure. When I had applied the epoxy initially I got my beard caught up in the epoxy and it got all over the Eva foam so I had intended to cover the Eva to the transition to the bottom. Tom then explained that I needed to sand it all down and basically do it right. This worked well as you can see and the line between the foam and the carbon came back in to
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Well, I’ve managed to screw the pooch on this one. I had one foam brush left and was nervous about applying the permagloss but decided to just do it. it actually looked good and I was pretty happy with the result and was on the edge of calling it a win until I saw a dry spot near the butt of the fore grip and the pinholes on the fighting butt I was worried about were right there waiting bu
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Got some more sanding done. There are some pretty deep scratches to deal with. I think maybe 80 grit was a little too aggressive? Thinking perhaps 120, 240, 320, 600, grey scotchbright may have ultimately saved me some headaches making sure the scratches were gone. Quite dusty and using my wrapper as a kind of lathe is less than ideal. The is doubly so considering I have a nice little atlas 18 in
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That's true....I never focused on that part but yeah he specs all his blanks as kits as well and if you want you can upgrade the "stock" guides with snake brand as well. Love me some snake brand guides. Matt has been quite good to deal with. I think I've ordered from him4 or 6 times
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+1 on the tape cut into appropriately sized strips. Finding more and more the keep it simple creed applies heavily to rodbuilding...
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Matt Ruggie Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Thx will check em out! No worries. I like proof also as they have decent rod specs and guide layout displayed on their store page for a given rod. They even give a measurement for where a winding would be placed
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Not sure on the Xi blanks but Proof Fly has some decent offerings
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