Better data! 1. Blank weight in ounces. 2. Length 3. ERN 4. AA 5. Easier to apply decal or label.
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Tape will hold up even on surf rods for test casting. You just have to use a couple or three layers.
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Here is something else you can try if you don\'t trust your eyes. Put the butt in a holding device and hang some weight from the tip. As you rotate the butt you will see the amount of deflection changes as the blank revolves. When it reaches the LEAST amount of deflection put a mark on the top of the blank. This will almost always be the straightest axis. The thing about using the straightest
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Have you thought about a skeleton seat and then making an insert to match in your choice of wood or acrylic?
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Are you talking about the thing called a pulley?
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I agree with Tom. If you stick a huge butt guide on there the line will track the ring. With a higher and smaller ring you are trying to get it sit in the bottom of the ring. It might move a little back and forth on the butt or next guide but if its still revolving on those or the rest your guides are too large in diameter. It was my understanding that part of the reason you set the outside of
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If it is the Morton Equal Angle chart then that guide would be located I think, at whatever point the blank is still straight when first flexed to ninety degrees. I think there was a full write up on the Morton graph in an older issue of Rodmaker. It\'s sure to work, but basing choke guide location on blank flex rather than reel spool size would not be as accurate IMO.
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They are good. Use them with confidence.
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Tough call! I have seen CP smear ink inscriptions and I have seen straight epoxy smear them too. What I have taken to doing is putting a quick spray of Krylon Fix-A-Tif over the ink and after an hour putting epoxy over that. No problems to report after several dozen done like this.
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St. Croix SCIV. Beautiful pearl blue. Really great blanks too.
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JP Timberlake had grips for sale at the ICRBE. Wood and other stuff. Might try contacting him.
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Interesting question but I tend to agree with Ken. I\'m not aware of any \"subtle force\" called \"tracking\". I would like to see someone make the rod tip travel in a different motion or plane than the rod grip does. I\'ll grant you that a badly warped or crooked blank like Tom mentions could cause it but it would take one heck of a lot of crook to do it. Also even if you
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A fast action popping rod blank might do the trick. Plenty of stuff out there in that price range.
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The problem with common sense is that you cannot rely on people to have it or if they have it, to use it. Common Sense told me not to breathe vapors of epoxy or to stick my skin in it. The voice in the next guy\'s head may not tell him the same thing. This is why the MDSD are required reading or should be. But I bet few ever bother with to read them.
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I can\'t understand this............ Spincast reels have built a half century reputation for being the most tangle free, trouble free reels in existence. I used them as a kid and never had an internal tangle. My kids used them and never had trouble. They seem to be the reel of choice for kids and occasional fishermen due to their trouble free nature. Their only downside would seem to be chincy dr
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I would build the blank that fits or suits her best and achieve her color preference with the thread wraps.
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Several people in this thread have told you not to start with expensive or high end blanks. I think that is good advice but I have trouble seeing Kistler blanks as being very high end blanks. I am sure they are very nice but IMHO they are not top of the crop stuff like a St. Croix SCIV or V, CTS or something along those lines. So don\'t worry, get started and build those rods. They are going t
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I guess I find this a little odd too. For the same line weight or power and length, a graphite rod should be infinitely less tiring to fish than a bamboo or fiberglass rod. I once had to use an older Winston fiberglass saltwater fly rod. A #12 according to the label. No wonder there were so few saltwater fly fishermen back in the day! An hour had me plum tuckered out. With a modern graphite #12
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Everybody ties different knots. I think 10\'s or 12\'s would pass mine but I cannot speak for yours. If you use single foot guides in a spiral wrap I think you will find that the very short leg ones like the larger fly guide types end up being harder to damage because they have less height to stick up and snag on something. But for your type rod I think I\'d stick with dbl. foots all the way
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You may remember the old Rodmaker mag article on applying decals. They showed how to overwrap the decal with thread to bind it down overnight. This makes the decal stay STUCK. Really binds down the edges and will prevent your problem from happening again.
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Yes you can! Glass works better than carbon because it gives a little easier and absorbs the movement of the boat in the swells. I found some solid glass 20lb boat rod blanks at the Expo in North Carolina a few years back for less than 7 bucks apiece. Made some stake out poles and one \"StickIt\" anchor. All have worked great and at a fraction of the cost of the store bought items.
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You are liable to read just about anything on some of the various rod building boards. This one sees so many really good builders that any practice that is the least bit suspect will quickly be rooted out. Do remember that no one here said you should not or could not use it..........just that for normal cork ring glue up there are better products available.
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What is your requested price range?
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The rod in the Bill's photo has one butt guide and two transition guides, then the choker and running guides. You can see the full movement of the line even in the single frame photo by means of the ghosting image of the line movement. The line appears to be only on the bottom of the butt guide but hitting the rod between the last transition guide and the choker guide. I would have built it with
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The tallest I had used were the Fuji Y frame guides but I think the PacBay Minima M guides are even taller than that. Maybe the tallest I have seen.
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Not sure but I think Denis is talking about the change in rod blank bend or curve between a bare blank and one that has had guides installed and then loaded in a fishing situation.
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I use it mostly just for the action ratings. AA. If you use the blank manufacturer ratings you have at best just five points on the scale: Slow Medium Medium-Fast Fast Extra Fast With the Common Cents AA scale I have found super fast taper live bait blanks that pushed the upper 80s reaching almost 90 and older glass trolling blanks that fell into the low 50 degree range. So the AA scale
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Tom, I will mail you the old Rodcrafter mailing list and you can forward it to any appropriate party that you like. It may or may not be helpful but I have no use for it. Not sure why I continued to keep it but maybe Karma dictated that it remain around for this sort of thing!
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A couple years before his all too soon passing, Rodcrafter Lee Ackart had loaned me the national Rodcrafter mailing list for a project I was working on. I still have it. There are something like 2200 names and addresses on it. It\'s a good ten years old now but might be of some use to anyone that wanted to pursue doing something for the former RC people at the Expo. Ask and ye shall receive. I ha
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I know very tiny guides can be used with braided line, but what about with standard monofiliment? For those of you who have used them much what do you feel is the smallest micro guide size suitable for use with about common 8 pound test? Thanks.
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