I know this topic has been beaten to death but I was wondering if permagloss would be easier to use or the rght thing to use in the first place instead of slow set epoxy...also I know you need a thread base or it helps to have one but is it necessary to put finish on this first. I figure I'll try it on a dowel rod first but just needing a little more insight before I sit down and put it on a rod
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so I've been helping my manager build a rod last 2 weeks and he finally got it all wrapped and the but wrap finished and it was a truly good quality rod. So we started putting the rod finish on and it was going on pretty good then the rod dryer just quit... Apparently the gears were slipping which i fixed later but for the time being we had to put it back in the wrapper and he turned it by h
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well we've made it past the first day, he has gotten the reelseat and cork on and all of the guides wrapped in a little over 6 hours...next step but wrap and trim wraps and then on to finish...But he is looking good so far he was an art major in college so it comes pretty easy to him...But I 'm sure all fo that will change when he starts on the cross wrap we're going to do for the butt.
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haha forhan wrap...we've been working on dowel rods and a broken rod I had in the garage...he keeps cutting the guide off and re wrapping it on while I give instructions and criticism...Its been working out pretty well so far I hope his parts come in the mail today so he'll actually have something to do.
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MY boss from work has been on to me to build him a rod pretty much since I started working there and he stopped by my house abd I showed him some rods and my new rod building bench i had just finished. he asked me well if you're going to take all this time building me one why don't you just teach me... So i got online typed in mudhole and the rest is history...I'm going to teach him how to bu
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is it just a string level mounted on a block of wood with a groove cut in the bottom?
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I would guess the t is kinda like having a half size. If its light wire i guess it would be a step in between in diameter.
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Check out Janns netcraft, I've built some cheap boat rods on their glass blanks, I think they are around 10-13 bucks for the blanks...can't baet it and if the guests aren't discerning as a chap you'd find on here then they'd never be the wiser.
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Did you hang the rod vertically while you let it dry? or turn it in the rod dryer?
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The unfinished blanks are like the gator glass blanks they have the ridges, they don't hinder the rods action but they do hinder the aesthetics. In a book I read about graphite rod building it shows the guy using a rod turning lathe to sand the ridges down. Thats what I am trying to achieve with my wood lathe. I figured about making adjustable rod supports that support the rod the length of it
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I've researched the topic on here in the past discussions and am still a little hazy about what to do. But I plan on refinishing a blank. I read the topic about the pvc T joint with the rubber across each end filled with the finish. This seems messy and hard to do. Is there any easier way to do it? Maybe on a rod dryer or dipping it? And if i were to color the blank would autobody spray pa
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I now own a craftsman wood lathe 1hp and I was planning on using it to turn grips and to turn unfinished blanks to sand them down. I've seen the universal rod chucks but is there any other way to rig it up. also is this the same thing you would use to accept the mandrels. or do they come with an attachment.
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try the berkley SS304 guides...I use them on almost all of my rods salt and fresh and they hold up superbly against braid and weight less than the ceramic inserts.
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I just built mine this week, hopefully when I get it finished I will post some pics of it, but what I did was built mine out of ply wood 2x4's and 2x6's. I built it 2 feet wide by 8 feet long and just made a simple box with 2 cross beams out of the 2x4's and screwed the piece of plywood on top of it. I mounted the legs on the outside, the ones in front were 3 feet and the ones in back 4 feet, No
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I'd go with black with lime green spiral...saw in the newspaper yesterday about back to school clothes and the girl was wearing a pink shirt with black diamonds and lime green skulls...thought it'd be a good Idea for the rod.
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the best way is to figure it out...get some dowel rods and try to make a pattern this will teach you the basics and who knows you might stumble onto a new pattern no book has. and really out sode of weaving many patterns can be done only using the basic cross wrap or the chevron whis really good tutorials can be found on Mud-hole in the rodbuilding 101 section. the rest just make it up as you g
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well I once built 2 rods in one night...I had planned a week or so to build them before a trip and I ended up having to work more than I had planned and then a buddy got thrown in jail so I had to go and bail him out and that left me one night...I got both of them done...functionally they are great but I didn't have time to put any detail work on the rods...just did all of the wraps in a single c
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As my dad says that there is hillbilly inginuity at its best... well fellas a little secret of mine that i get from golf suppliers is tungsten powder, i mix it with epoxy and use it to balance rods by filling the inside of the blank and standing it on its butt and letting it harden. I would almost bet that if he took some tundsten powder and mixed it up and spread it around on the inside of t
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I built a 7'9'' 3 wt a coupkle years back which my buddy instantly stuck into a ceiling fan and broke about 6 inches off of. I used a Janns netcraft blank...I think it was around 50 bucks and actually makes for a heck of a rod especially on those small streams. I mostly fish nymphs and it does well...actually has enough backbone to land some bigger fish if you were so lucky to catch one.
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I am planning to rebuild an older graphite rod of mine. I plan on shortening it from 7 ft to about 6'3'' so i would be re doing all the guide placements. So I figure to remove all of the finish from around the guide feet i would need to not sand but use a 3M scouing pad to remove what is stuck on...also the blank is pretty scratched up...So to refinish one in a different color all together what
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Cabelas usewd to sell some hopkins and holloway guides that are really nice nickel silver that would be the only thing i would put on a bamboo rod. If you're going to spend the money on either having one built or having one repaired spend it well and put some good guides....it'd be like repainting a '65 mustang with spray paint. Just a thought.
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what you need to do is flip it over put all the guides on the bottom, don't use a trigger reel seat it'll just get in the way...use some bigger guides and then put a spinning reel on it. I never understood how people can drive a car and operate very confusing gadgets and still use a "push-button" reel. But I guess to each his own.
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Xm radio...It helps keep me relaxed...well I guess any radio would do that but atleast with XM i don't have to listen to any commercials.
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same thing on a flyrod i suppose I think I still have the e-mail tuorial Somebody sent it to me...I tried it on a rod I built about a month ago...not as easy as I had thought. If I can find the tutorial I'll shoot it your way. KED
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Nah the rod i found was a 5'5'' ultralight diawa rod with an abu garcia reel on it. Maybe a 50 dollar set up...doens't come close to the 300 dollar rod i lost. but thats crazy about the rod that got dragged a mile.
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I lost a rod last week on a fishing trip to Minnesota in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. It was a rod I had built for a birthday present for myself back in the spring. With a brand new never been out of the box reel. My hands were wet and as I made a cast it flipped out of my hands sinking to the murky depths below. after knowing I couldn't retrieve the rod from where it was with w
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I was trying to explain to my sister why I have over 30 rods and she didn't get it...she said its all the same you throw it out and reel it in...throw it out and reel it in. I was trying to explain baits and salt vs. fresh and all the intricasies of fishing and she was like there is no reason to spend 350 on a rod they all do the same. So I agree with you i go fishing not always to catch f
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After my last post on feather inlays and much help from you guys i have figured out how to make a feather inlay. After making epoxy thread ramps and getting good at that and practicing with flytying feathers I am moving on up to trying it on a rod. Now my next question...where is the best place to get feathers. I order most things from mudhole but they only seem to have jungle cock feather
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double post
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well if you take a snake guide in your fingers you can flex it back and forth so I would figure that on a rod blank it will flex a bit as well regardless of how tightly it is wrapped. I doubt you wrapped the thread tight enough to somehow compromise the integrity of the blank. but i guess during the highsticking the end of the guide foot made somewhat of a fulcrum for it to break the rod over.
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