Rodger, Where the two magnets join and you put paper between to change the tension, that joint has quite a bit of mechanical advantage put on it, especially if your taking thread off the top wrap of a large spool of thread. When you get the more abrupt startup tension of the power wrapper it just tips over at the joint and your small pieces of paper spill over your bench.
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Roger, It works good handwrapping, under a power wrap it gets pulled over by the wrappers startup speed. Tensions the spool.
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American Tackle also.
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Sounds like a Sage chart.
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Batsons are not as light, looking at the guides, you'll see less metal and a shorter/thinner guide foot on the Fuji.
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Cutting that much of a fly blank would IMO destroy it. You would end up with a slow, low powered blank.
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You could use an ultralight glass spinning blank. I think you'll find if you CC your Wonderod that it doesn't spec out as a rated 6 wt, I've yet to see one of the older rods that do. That doesn't mean it isn't a 6 wt rod just that measuring it using an accepted measuring method puts it someplace else on the scale powerwise.
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Haven't tried that model RX7, but every other RX7 blank I've used has been a great fishing tool. I too really like the Rainshadow green blanks, always buy them in that color when I can.
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Dan's Sig V blanks are the same old gloss graphite grey.
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I've only used a few Rogues, some of the popping blanks and a few SWW and a SU haven't anything to complain about.
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Graphite USA SW70M is about the power range of the HS blanks Tom was talking about and faster than the listing would lead you to believe. The SW70MH will be heavier and faster. Both are light and handy for a SW blank. Very hardy and will take quite a bit of abuse/heavy loading.
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One blank that would be on my list also is the Lamiglas XMG50 ESH 114 2M. A little lighter than the XST, very sensitive blanks. Long enough to use with floats so you can keep it with you all the time for those spur of the moment fishing trips. Get a lightest reel you can buy for the job whatever the blank get as it will weight as much as the whole rod and is just as important for sensitivity. I
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Twice the blank cost would be about right.
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The Dan Crafts are more like the Sage SPL+/SLT rods, IMHO.
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The Dan Craft FTL 803-5 would also me on my list.
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This was mentioned here about a month or so ago, an article on this new technology was I believe promised in a future RodMaker article.
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I don't think the TFO blanks are anywhere near the durability or quality of the GUSA or Dan Craft. The GUSA's dual helical layup is extremely durable and helps keep the blank round under loads that would shatter others. The GUSA saltwater blanks are renowned for the the power, fishability and abuse they can take, much more than most graphite blanks. The same design is used in the fly rods. Don
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Hard to tell with no info on the components, etc. you want.
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Bingham Ent. and Mudhole are good starts. Angler's Workshop used GUSA blanks as their shop Salt Stalker and Stream Stalker blanks, they may have some left. They had quite a pile of them at an excellent sale price back at the first week of last month when I was in last. Beautiful green blanks.
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I'd go smaller also if it's a small opening reel like a Zebco, but some of the large opening reels like the Abus may work better with the 10 and heavier line like 6 lb that may be on a wife/kids rod.
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I'd try a #10 double foot and 5 #6 single foot ceramic fly guides plus tip top.
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The Graphite USA F4910DHX or the DH models are some of the most durable blanks there is and they fish great. Another to look at would be the CTS or Dan Craft FT blanks. The GUSA rods have saved my bacon on a wilderness trips or tough conditions more than once..
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Marblize, or metal flake it ala Putter. Or you can just buy a metallic silver painted Fuji seat from Merrick through one of the sponsors like FishSticks4U, Schneider's, Dan Craft and others I'm sure.
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The people I had that were coming back with broken rods a pushing for more performance, I taught them what I knew about it, than let them roll their own. They are doing things I never thought of and wouldn't do to one of my rods , but it's on their nickel now and they are having a ball doing it. They do catch a lot of fish.
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Half the parts on that Taig Mini is on my Custom Power Wrapper it looks like.
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CTS is the way to go. I know of a 9 ft. 6 in., 7 piece, 7 wt blank that may work. Not a sponsor so e mail me if you don't know the one I'm thinking of.
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A size 6 ceramic guide is about the same size as a #1, Size 7 ceramic a size #2, Size 8 a size #3, seeing a pattern?
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The SHII 764 was by far the most popular of the bunch I believe. You need durability, if you can't feel a fish only 15 ft away you have a problem no rod will fix. I still use a Fenwick E-glass flipping stick and have no problem detecting the fish.
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Don't remember Lamiglas ever having part numbers like that. All Star, Rainshadow and Pac Bay do however.
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Tommy, I think it's a whole bunch easier to do it like the article in the library above, where you use a straight line through the reel's shaft under the spool to find the choke point and guide sizes. Math makes my head hurt, I like my results to be more visual, where the guide size/height/position is as simple and fast as I can make it.
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