Participate in your local or regional fishing web site by offerring advice or comments on fishing rods, their components, how they are built, etc., not in an effort to sell a custom rod, but rather so the board members can make informed purchases about any rod. The custom orders will follow.
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Minimum two coats for sealing, 3-5 coats depending upon the amout of sheen the customer wants, apply with finger lengthwise then spin rod and lightly run finger over the cork to work into grain, buff with 0000 steel wool between coats.
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Sam, what issues have you encountered in using steel wool? Thanks
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Thanks for the suggestions. I should have clarified that I got it about 1/3 of the way up but I had loaded up the inside of the grip with Rod Bond, but none on the blank. Are you all suggesting that Rod Bond on the blank will act as a lubricant? Maybe the light is going on. The outside diameter of grips with larger inside diameters are too large for the client's hands, it's the wife of
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Attempting (feebly) to replace a cork tape rear grip with an EVA foam grip from the bottom up. Unfortunately, the inside diameter of the foam grip is a wee to small and I cannot force it up over the blank, thus the Q. I have tried the normal cork reamers with little success. Is there a better way? Thanks for your help, need to rest my arms now.
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Chestnut brown main, silver or gold trim to pick up the reel highlights, with corresponding glitter in the epoxy (sometimes) with the Cabela's brown woven graphite reel seat, Fuji Alconite chrome guides, really blends into a nice consistent look..
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I use a liquor shot glass for mixing, the type which narrows and rounds at the bottom, keeps epoxy on the side to a minimum and mix with one of the spatula type tools I picked up as a set, it's the one that is rounded on the bottom and slightly cupped, never had a striping issue.
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I picked up some inexpensive spatula type tools from Harbor Freight and ground and polished them myself. One for applying the epoxy and the other for filling tunnels and squaring off edges. A crochet needle works too for tunnnels. For a burnishing tool I actually use a "burnishing" tool (have had it for twenty-five years), one made for burnishing dry transfer lettering which in turn,
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Try Karen at Bingham, I picked up a couple myself, she still may have some left.
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Jim, I did a 1 hour presentation last winter for our local web page group on some of the very same topics listed above, I have a five page outline in EXCEL I can send you to give you some thoughts on content. Let me know your e-mail address so I can send it if you want. rayzct@cox.net
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Doug, thank you
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Does anyone know the outside spool diameter for this size reel? Need to make customer recommendations on guides size. Thanks for your efforts.
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I have the older model with the old chuck and use a hose clamp as added security, now I never have to worry.
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I have built three surf rods on the St. Croix 3SRS100M2 blank, one for myself two years ago even though I have only surf fished twice, thus my casting technique needs a lot of work. Even with that handicap, I was able to rountinely make 100 yard casts with 2 oz of weight. My two clients opted to have their rods made from the same blank after casting my personal rod, both are experienced surf fi
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This winter several members of our Connecticut fishing web site (CTFishermen.com) put on a series of seminars on different fishing related topics. As the self proclaimed resident rod builder, I put one together, not focused on custom rod building, but what I called "The Anatomy of a Fishing Rod". I discussed and demonstrated the various aspects of a rod, design, components, actions, e
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Another tip to avoid contamination is to use only distilled water. Tap water may leave behind unsightly residue.
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If you are using WINDOWS as your operating system I believe you can find some clip art of fish there, I have used some in my business cards and stationary.
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Billy B. if you are talking freshwater spinning rods take a look at Cabelas' woven graphite reel seats in three colors, the brown is a perfect complement for St. Croix's LE blanks.
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Thank you Ralph, I'm in the middle of a rod re-wrap repair and I noticed that the butt ferrule was loose. I'll fix it even though my customer did not know about the problem.
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Can Rod Bond be used as ferrule cement? Thanks
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