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You could have gotten many of the blanks in a mirror finish, which is more of a buffing the edges off instead of sanding. I have had no problem wrapping raw blanks, so I leave them alone. Next one a P700, I see no real issue, the ridges are smaller than some have been in the past.
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Yes, to heat shrink, when I needed long reamers, I just made them. I have 3 that are at least 3 ft. long and up to 4 ft. Took me about 10 minutes to find a 1" ID grip, Angler's Workshop's R4212 is a 14" grip, I bet you can figure how to make it 16 inches on your own. Just bought Angler's last two 19" cork grips just the other day.
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Lowest to highest: SM,IM, HM, X Ray, X ray with C6O2.
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If you could still buy the blanks the 3 piece GLX 9000 hot shot blank would have been perfect, mine sure is. NFC has a bunch of the HS 7600-2 in IM and HM, the HS 760-2 if you think you need more power, though I doubt you'd need it, I have caught bones, steelhead, coho and 25 lb. chinook salmon on my GLX, no problem. Also there is the HS 701-2 but I know nothing about it. There are some 4 piece
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As long as you keep the guides outside the collapsed length of the blank, you can make it anyway you like.
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I have no way to prove it, but my mind went immediately to it being a lower end graphite All Star blank. Maybe one of the Big Boy jig rod series.
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I have forgotten to bring up a point important in a sink tip streamer rod, you want a rod that roll casts well, there are many nowadays that do not. There is no better way to handle a sink tip line then to bring it in to where you are no longer fishing, roll casting the tip to the surface and immediately make one back cast and fire to your next area.
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Both my Loomis GL3 sinktip rod and my first year GLX have o rings, bought many years apart.
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The o-rings go in a groove cut into the knurled nut's face, I'm willing to bet they are not a "special" o-ring as they come in so many sizes I'm sure they just picked one that would work. Most things are made with the cost of making special components in mind, when a generic item can be made to work just fine, they do so.
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My grandad traded something for a 6 1/2 foot blank length Sabre bass style rod back in the 60's I believe, he used it as his flounder/sole, rock bass and greenling rod. After he passed in the 80's I found it pretty hammered and rebuilt it into a more modern rod and have caught LMB, SMB, trolled for big browns, and bottom fished with it just as he did. It will throw a 1/4 oz. lure as far as anythi
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The gentleman does not want to build grips, he wants pre-made ones.
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The new carbon grips give a few options as it's been explained to me, you can insert the blank in a few inches as shown in their illustration, or go for a full length grip fit. one gives you the original length the other extends the finished rod length, both will work just as well.
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Camo grips were so 15+ years ago so there isn't much out there if you don't build your own, VooDoo Matagi products maybe your only choice, give them a call, they don't show everything Matagi does on their site.
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What's the difference between Jasper that has been around forever and tiger thread?
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A 5 glass blank is nothing like a carbon blank, the low end lure rating and the AA of those blanks would have me moving to the 786, I fear the tip may be to soft, I've always preferred a MH blank for jigging anyway. Been a while since I have heard someone "huck" a lure, thanks for the memory of a good collegue.
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My PG wraps were not as translucent as epoxy wraps.
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Lamiglas used to make the tubing, I don't know if they still do for their rods, NFC may also, I know their Black Widow tubing is hand laid up out of the same material they build their blanks out of, watched the lady do it. Light weight stuff. Lamiglas part # for .980ID tube was THT-980-Length, the length were in inches, 10, 12, 16 and 60. Butt cap was GH-950-BC, the trim ring was GH-980-TR.
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#20 is the way Mr. Clemens showed me how to do it many years ago. The Batson clan uses another method that takes more time and products to get the same results, doing and spending more to get the same results is not my way.
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David, Yet, if things are like Gary did before, his spacing charts online are what he used on his factory rods, and they seem to survive just fine. You can get the Edge rods with different guide packages that, I am sure, meet your description of guides, including REC guides and spiral wrapping if you want.
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Thomas, Take another peek at the NFC charts, the majority of 7 ft. to 7 ft. 3 in. blanks listed have the same spacing. The type of guide wouldn't change this, using these charts 9 guides will be plenty.
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Piscari said their grip material was about 9% heavier that raw cork grips the same size.
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Same with every rod I have ever owned.
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Watching the ladies at Lamiglas they mixed there finish just like they would if they were making a cake by hand, quick swipe of heat for a piezo igniting propane torch and they were done, the brush they used looked more like a disposable acid brush than what most use here.
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Have you checked out American Grips Piscari to the left? Looks like they are expanding their selection frequently.
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RodBuilders Warehouse to the left has the info you need, you can always call them if you need to. They have been selling SeaGuide for years.
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Batson uses a strip of their reinforced packing tape wrapped around the tip leaving a folded loop in the end to hang on to their load measuring device. They mention it many times on their Blank Talk vids and show how to do it on one of them. It takes a bunch of load without failure.
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If I remember the KR Concept video correctly, they concluded the KW10, KW5.5, and then your running guides was the way to go on a casting rod, a static deflection test does the rest, easy peasy. I think the RV6 is still only available in Ti, the height off the blank is the same as the KW10, which is the important part.
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Struble made two seats in Ti, one, the U22 all metal Ti didn't last long, the more standard construction U21 was around a good long time, the U22 adjusted by turning the fighting butt, the internal threads never were as smooth as the external thread U21. My Perigee 9 wt. has a U22 Ti seat and to this day it hasn't gotten any smoother.
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I imagine they will have to bump up the wire size like they do now, 20 mm guides are .055, 25 and 30 mm are .060 and 40 mm .070 wire on the originals. Measured in wire gauge inches, you'd think the longer ones would need thicker wire maybe.
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