Casting rod? Start with a 12 butt guide and then an 8 and then on down to whatever size micros you want to use. Because they sit lower to the rod you might want to use as many total guides as maybe one guide per foot of rod length plus two or three additional plus the tip. Do not worry about weight much because the micros are so light to begin with.
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Good resource. Every guide maker should offer the weights of their guides.
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Dark green. Regular nylon No color preserver. Blends in well and has a nice translucence.
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At one time Shimano was making some of their higher end blanks at the G.Loomis plant in WA. That may or may not be the case anymore.
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This will be a real step up for the decals.
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Hey hey hey now....... an insurance salesman discovered rod spine and said it was so..... so it must be so!
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Well I have two questions one for each camp----- If you build on the spine how do you manage to always cast on the same plane, inline with the spine on every cast? Do you never cast sidearm, pitch or flip? If you build on the straightest axis do you find that you cannot hit the target you are casting to?
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So FIFTY plus years ago an insurance salesman decides to write a book on custom rod building and puts some stuff in it about rods having a 'spine' and what you should do with it. No data was supplied just an opinion of the effect. All these years later guys are still worrying over something that obviously makes no difference. It is amazing how things can grow all out of proportion if you just get
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This is a take off on about a thirty year old design from Shimano. Cannot remember what they called their swelled but rods. It was part of the blank but not sure about this one. If it integral to the blank you probably cannot build it. If it is an add-on then you can if you know how to make and shape carbon skinned grips. P.S. "dampening" means to make wet. I think you mean damping whi
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A lot. Do you read the magazine? It's always been years ahead of forums and FB type stuff. A lot if not most of the stuff commonly accepted today in the fishing rod world was first shown in the magazine.The Common Cents System, carbon skinned grips, micro guides, on and on and on, they all saw the first light of day in the magazine. To much to list as there have been over a thousand articles, Tom
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Read the new issue of the magazine. The stuff on handle length is something nobody has brought up before and it makes perfect sense. To good to miss.
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And so the problem with the bounce back to the top every time a topic is responded to. Things usually get settled in a few posts and then the topic falls away as it should. Now it only takes a couple or three guys going back and forth to keep an old topic at the top for ages. Look at the CCS stuff that has been continually at the top for two weeks with just a small handful of guys going back and
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Is the line pressing down on the blank or even going below it? Or is the line just skirting and touching the side of the blank as it passes by? I have not had any problems from it personally but put a bumper or line rub prevention guide, whatever you want to call it, at that location. Great set up and just makes more sense than many other spiral wrap systems. Works like a charm. The interline
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Flipping the tip section upside down is clever and will save you a lot of time removing and rewrapping guides. More than likely you will only end up moving a couple and adding the extra guide at 90. I think you will like the rod this way if you give it a fair chance.They just handle the fish so much better when the guides are on the bottom.
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Maybe throw this forum out and make it a searchable database and start over with a true App type forum. Sometimes it is easier to start from scratch.
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Pretty much yes. The guy that captured the market with his Tenkara rods must have made a mint. When they first came out I did not think anyone would buy them at such a high price but they took off like gangbusters.
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Where is Al Jackson in all of this? He probably did more rod design and innovation than anyone else. Still working I would guess.
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I was looking for ERN and don't recognize those figures. Sorry.. Only way to put any of this in front of rod and blank mfgs is to contact them directly. Fishing Tackle Retailer publishes a list of all the companies in the tackle industry in their magazine every year and there are dozens of rod and blank manufacturers. Write a letter or e-mail and send direct. They will never see it on a rod b
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I've never seen a 1.400 ERN. Maybe I am reading these wrong. The only argument I have made about any proposal is that none except maybe a couple of the world's rod and blank manufacturers will ever see the proposal and even if they all saw it they would never adopt it. They are not going to adopt somebody else's system in favor of their own which most have used for years. It is a nice thing fo
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Matt Ruggie Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > > MikeB > there sure are at least a few examples of > blanks from same manufacturer, in the same > category(SJ,MB,Spinning) where you see blanks > labeled L being more powerful than blanks labeled > ML and blanks labled M being less powerful than > the blanks labled ML. Its not
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Per the power and action designations they appear fine and in acceptable range to me. But I do not understand what those numbers at the end of the lines are.
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Bream Busters from the old Lew's line about be about it. Same concept. Mostly what guys wanted was an actual handle with a larger grip on rods that got out to as much as 18 feet.
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Mike and Norman- You went cross category. Most every fisherman knows that almost every company uses a different scale for power in something like bass rods and something like inshore rods or other saltwater. Yes a heavy power bass rod will be less powerful than a light power saltwater rod. But in any particular category from the same company you will not find a medium power rod than has less powe
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Michael Danek Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Yes it can. If the subjective "medium" power has > less power than the subjective "light" power, it > is inaccurate. > > You'll know it when the rod cannot cast the same > weight as the "light" can cast, when it has less > capability to pull a fish out of th
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A subjective rating cannot be inaccurate. Give it some thought...
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Ratings and measurements are only target specs for a particular model. The actual product will vary. We have all gotten rod blanks that list the blank as having a 5/64's tip and end up having to use 4.5 or a 5.5 and if quality control is lacking you may have to go further than that. No blank manufacturer is worried about some custom rod builder measuring a rod blank via the CCS and not getting th
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I have been accessing and using this forum from my Apple iPhone for ten years or maybe more. Never had an App and probably too old to even understand why you need an App to do it. If your phone will access this internet you can already do it.
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Either that or it could be that few have read it and those that have do not have any pull in the industry. I guess you will know shortly.
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Roger- No the lower frame guides do not create line slap. By the time you get to that point the line is traveling straight out, not spiraling around in circles as on the first guide or two on a spinning rod. This is why the New Guide Concept works so well on spinning rods with very low frame runners. The line is controlled and moves parallel to the rod. There is no up and down or circling movemen
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Who have you submitted this proposal to?
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