Mark, Don't make the easy mistake of aliging the guides on a reel seat which doesn't hold the reel in the same place as you align the guides. ie. to be sure that the guides are aligned properly, be SURE to place a reel on the reel seat and double check the guide alignment, after you think everything is all right. It is suprising how often you will thing that you had the reel seat positi
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Brent, One of the problems that you may encounter is too small a plug to fill the hole. Plugs are commonly supplied in 1/4 or 3/8th in sizes. However, many times the size of the rod butt is much larger and thus the plug is too small. To solve this problem, I picked up an inexpensive set of "plug cutters". This is a set of cutters that fit into my drill press and it allows me t
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Jeremy, Don't worry about the spine of the rod. However, it is always a good idea to check to see if the blank is straight. If not, no big deal. Just be sure to align the guides and reel seat so that the bend is parallel with the alignment of the guides and reel seat. If you want more power, have the bend in the rod pointed up. If you want a bit less power, build with the bend in the rod dr
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Ferando, Lately, I have been using a Stanley, rasp for all of the initial shaping of the cork. Also, if you have cork glued together, the Rasp cuts easily through the glue. Sand Paper tends to polish the glue line, but not cut through it. Then, when I get through the outer surface and the general shape of the handle in place, I will start going down with sandpaper grit. Typically, I will
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Tim, If you use low profile guides, your right on, and it is ncessary to use that number. However, if you use a higher profile guide, you will have an equally nice rod with about 1/3rd fewer guides. Take care Roger p.s. I did the same thing a few years ago with a set of low profile guides on a slow action rod. I believe that I ended up with 14 guides on that one. However, I did
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Rusty, Note the definition: Now, imagine that your blank flexes in a shape similar to the graph that describes the shape of a parabola and that will be it. Of course, if you push the numbers, you can get huge variations in the shape of a parabola. Just try putting some different numbers in the equation and you will see what I mean. As some of the other posters have indicated. M
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Roy, Take two 1/2 inch thick cork rings. Weigh them. Then, take the amount of epoxy that you are going to use to make the ramp at the end of the grip - weigh it. I suspect that you will find that an inch of cork weigh no more than the epoxy that you will use as a ramp. It is fine to not have a foregrip on a reel seat. However, I doubt that you will really save much weight on a rod by
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Yes, Roger
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Eric, I use a 1 inch wide belt sander loaded with 240 or 320 grit sanding belt. Then, I place the sander at right angles to me and use the spinning belt to shape the guide feet. I shape the guide feet, so that the end of the guide end has a knife edge. Then, I continue the taper so that there is no sudden change in the ramp of the guide. This makes it very simple to use A sized thread t
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Eric, Purchase a lathe. I purchased a lathe, and then purchased the necessary accessories. I had about the same amount of money in the accessories as in the lathe itself. By accessories, I mean extra chuck, several different tail stock piecs. i.e. fixed, rotating, chuck etc. different manderals - i used all sizes of threaded rods. Cutting tools, files, sanding equipement, etc. All
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p.s. In former years, I would apply glue only to the inside of the tube, and then put it on the tip. Unfortunately, I had a couple of these tips come loose due to inadequte glue getting between the tip and inside of the tube. So, in recent years, I would always apply a coating of glue to the tip, to insure that there was a good layer of glue on both the inside of the tube as well as all of th
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I just happened to come across a new tool to help in the installation of a blank tip, using hot melt glue. The tool is the use of a 1/4 inch wide 4 inch long pocket razor knife that is available at hardware stores for less than $1. When recently building up a bunch of ice rods with very fine tips, I found it necessary to use underwraps on the tips to size up the rod tip for the tip tubes bein
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Peter, I think it likely that you have an electric drill - portable or corded type. To do a nice job of applying finish smoothly, it is nice to have the rod turning at a reasonable speed to get a nice smooth edge with no issues. If you do have a variable speed drill - preferably a two speed portable, it is quite easy to fabricate a chuck of sorts to tape to the butt of the rod to get th e
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Joey, I don't like to use sandpaper on a blank and typically don't find it necessary. With the reel seat removed, grab a heat gun and heat the area of epoxy needing removal. The heat will soften the epoxy and then use a straight edged razor blade held at 90 degrees to the blank, scrapping off the epoxy. Generally, 5 minutes of heat and scrapping will clean up 100% of the old glue with no sa
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Fernando, The microwave will work just fine. However, if you happen to have the glue in a metal container or a metal top, you can throw the containers in a pan of warm or hot water and leave them there for 30 minutes or so. That will also nicely warm the mix for better mixing. Take care Roger
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Jason, I assume that you are going to be having about a 10 inch back grip? If that is the case, you need to slip the reel seat down another 3 1/2 inches. Just take a caliper and measure the difference in diamter of the blank, where the reel seat is now; compared to where it would be with the length back grip that you want. If it is less than 1/2 the thickness of the next size reel seat, it
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Sir : P8400 (GLX) 7' 1 6 - 12 4.5 0.487 Ex-Fast Med-Light 27580-01 SJ842 (GL3) Mahogany 7' 1 6 - 12 5.0 0.505 Fast Medium 26835-01 The above is lifted from the GLomis catalog. Typically any of the P rods are considered to be "popping" rods. These rods were designed for flats fishing, using a "popper" technique - utilizing live bait - ty pically fresh shrimp. Th
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Danny, How are you going to ship and or transport such a long blank. I admire your courage, but it sounds like there are lots of issues with such a long one piece blank. I also don't know what you really gain by having such a long one piece blank, when a two piece blank would be so much more convenient. Take care Roger
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Tim, You can get a million different answers to the question. Many fishermen mistake the difference between - feeling type sensitivity for - visual type sensitivity. Actually, in most cases, the heavier action the rod is, the more sensitive the rod is - i.e. for transmitting vibrations. However, in the case of visual type sensitivity, - here the faster or lighter tip allows the tip t
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Joe, I picked up the Neoprene from the internet. Just do a search on the internet, or on the @#$%& sites. You will find what you need. Typically, the neoprene sells for about $10 for a 3X3 foot piece. I first tried 1/32 inch, but found it too thin. So, then I picked up a piece of 1/16th which is just right. Obviously, you have to change the amount of milling on the chuck, to accomodate th
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p.s. If you have further questions, or need more pictures or detail - please drop me an e-mail at hflier@comcast.net Take care Roger
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p.s. If I were to build one for myself, I would insure that the center support pipe is long enough to handle the longest rod that one would want to dry. Then, put the pipe support at each end of the pipe to support the dryer. Obviously, you don't want either verticle rod support to hit a rod butt or tip, so the support distance would have to be greater than any prospective rod. Of course, ther
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One of the pictures posted in the photo section as follows: is a pretty good example of a simple dryer. If I was to construct such a drum dryer, I would use two round disks, with the dozen slots cut in each disk to hold rods. Then, a pair of verticals - each of which would have a ball bearing inserted for ease of turning. Then, in the center of each disk - the flange as shown with
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Mike, Here is a picture of the completed chuck: Note the pvc cap, the slightly oversize ring made of a coupler, the neoprene holder with the 1/2 inch hole punched in to hold the rod and the coupler on the back of the chuck. Roger
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Walt, Where are you located? Depending on where you are located, I could build one for you and ship it to you, if the shipping wouldn't be too much. Take care Roger
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If you want a drying chuck and want to save yourself some money, it is easy to make some chucks for your dryer as follows: Pick up some PVC pipe caps in a size that makes sense for your application. Possibly 1 1/2, 2, or 2 1/2. Then, pick up some correctly sized couplers that will fit or nearly fit over the outside of the pipe caps. I am basing this discussion on the fact that you have
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Joe, You indicated that HEAT did nothing for the finish removal. If you are going to get this rod fixed, I think that you likely need more heat. I would not use a flame, since it it too difficult to control the heat from a flame. However, the use of a good professional heat gun should take care of softening the finish for removal. I suspect that it would make sense to heat up the overco
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Sam, I made a support to wrap the thin blanked ice rods that I have been working with recently. However, the same support works very well when working with equally fine tip sections. It is a very easy build of a piece of solid glass blank, grooved at the top and simply placed in a hole in a base. When I made the base, I drilled several holes at different spacing to allow better rod suppor
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DR, Alchol works very well for most cleanup jobs. However, if there is an issue with semi dried epoxy that doesn't budge with alchol; I will reach for the Xylene. Xylene is more than a bit toxic with respect to breathing, but it is really the cleaner of choice when it comes to cleaning up partially hardened epoxy. If you have to use Xylene very often - you should be using a rebreather
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Lance, There are 4 catagories - all of which could be used with no issue for your rod building and sales: 1. 339900 - Misl Mafg. 2. 811490 - Personal goods repair and maintenance 3. 451110 - sporting goods retail 4. 453990 - Misl store - retail. Choose the one that most closely fits your particular operation and go with it. Take care Roger
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