Hi guys I'm in a blanks qualifying stage to build a two-piece light spinning surf rod to fish from the beach and the piers, with the following features: Length: 9 '- 10' Action: Fast Lure weight: 1/2 - 2 oz. Used lure type: casting Jig (1/2 - 1 oz.), Minnow (7.5 ", 1/2 - 1 1/2 oz.), Popper, WTD Skipping Lure (max.1 1/2 oz.) . Having a limited budget I was orientated in selecting the ver
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Does anyone have a picture of the blank's curve under load (e.g. 1 lb) for Lamiglas Black Salt TLP862 ? To better evaluate the blank to adapt it for a specific fishing use, I need to understand how round it is!
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Hello, I am installing a metal spinning reel seat on heavy saltwater graphite rod. I'd like to install it without errors, which is the best way to do it ? There is a special glue for it ? Normally I made graphite thicknesses to be inserted between the blank and the reel seat, making the rough parts, clean with alcohol and then glueing to everything with the U40 Rod Bond. Is the right way? Is it
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Hi Tom, you could check it out.
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Hello, I read on RodMaker Magazine the article about HSG spacing system. I want to deepen that argument but I can't find the excel file at showed path into the magazine: . Could anyone help me?
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Thanks to all!
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Hi guys, does anybody help me to choise the right green color from PRO WRAP palette to make a true MHX wrap style?
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Great Job Stefano, is the laminator indispensable ? Can I use other sources of hot energy to replace it ?
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Hello, does anyone tried his hand in the construction of fishing rods for the Trout Area technique ? What kind of blanks did you use?
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Hello guys and Merry Xmas to all, I am looking for a kind of glue with good expanding properties. I need to use it for repair a broken fibre carbon rod. Normally I use a two parts epoxy glue but in this case the parts are too much loose and I want try to fill gap with glue properties. Ciao
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Hi Bill, I have that tape (I have both the 3M tapes), VHS NTSC original and its copies in DVD PAL ! I live in Italy, write me an email maybe is it possible give you one. Ciao Marco
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Hello, for international security shipping rules, I need of SDS (Safety Data Sheet) or similar document for Diamond II rod finish, Does anyone has one?
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Someone ever made a spinning rod in two pieces using an aluminum tube for part of the butt section, on the idea of the old series Lamiglas Titanium? What would be the benefits? Thank you Marco
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update..... Yesterday I received the blanks, thank you to Mr. Jose Ortega for the great service and help offered allowing me to mitigate my loss of business. Marco
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update..... Although Mr. Ortega (Seeker) continues to respond to my reminders that will send the blanks, to date I have not received any details about it ! I'm really shocked, no one thinks to my business and what they have created. Marco
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Marco Cellini Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Just two things to add...... > > I wrote to Seeker in different way, first of all a > lot of days ago, by their web form contact and > then, after the forum's help, by "no longer valid > email address" showed from Sean. > When I wrote to that email > ([email protected]
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Just two things to add...... I wrote to Seeker in different way, first of all a lot of days ago, by their web form contact and then, after the forum's help, by "no longer valid email address" showed from Sean. When I wrote to that email ([email protected]) after some days I received Jose's read confirmation (therefore the email address was active, someone read it). Again afte
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Hi Bill I wrote to MH president and to Seeker manufactures...............I can't believe NO ANSWER !! Is a paradoxical situation, I paid for and I can not use the purchased material and nobody feels responsible! I thought these things happen only in Italy, evidently it is not so. Marco
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OK Bill I will try, thank you! Marco
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I can hardly even I understand such behavior from Mud Hole, I find myself between a rock and the hammer, I spent $ 400 without being able to use the material, and most likely lose a customer! (in these times is really hard!) Meantime Seeker does not answer ........ Do you have any advice? Marco
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bill boettcher Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > call Mud Hole They should take care of this issue > > > Your Supplier should be the First One To call !!! Bill I did that, Mud Hole was the first one called to me ! They can change the blanks but to return it they will charge me every expense (I must pay again for the same blanks, the shipping
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Thanks Alex
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Thank you so much Harry
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Does anyone know the e-mail address of the Seeker company to contact them directly preventing the form from their website ? (I wrote them by web but they did not respond for days!) I purchased by Mud Hole four different Super Seeker blanks and all I got crooked, completely unusable! I do not understand how a company can afford so important a thing like this (I think an issue with their qualit
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Thank you to all, I'll keep in my mind your suggestions. Marco
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Hi guys, Does anyone has ever tried to use polyurethane glue to paste spigot or sleeve? Could help its characteristics of elasticity and expansion ? Thank you Marco
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Thanks a lot Tom, I'll try to study the Dr. Hanneman's Universal Rod Rating System. Marco
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Hi guys, to experiment I conducted a series of practical tests by changing the length of some blanks (spinning / casting) by running the cuts (tip / butt). Now left for me to determine the "new" lure weight of the changed blanks. Does anyone know how find the new features of the trimmed blanks? Thanks Marco
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Thanks to all for your answer guys ! To Roger and Tom: What do you think about Robert thought? Thanks again Marco
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I'd like share with you my target to build a spigot insert from a carbon dowel and know your point of view about how to build it. In other words I'm looking support about my following building criteria: I'm starting from a piece of carbon dowel instead from a piece of hollow carbon (tube) because I think to have much robustness e much precision for fitting it (I'll work on heavy muskie 2 pieces
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