The final issue of RodMaker for 2009, Volume 12 #6, will be mailed early next week. The topics featured in this new issue include: Rod Failure - How to visually identify the underlying causes. Abalone Revisted - This makes previous abalone application methods obsolete. Inscription Diamond Easy Wrap Starting Retrofitting Reel Seats ICRBE Seminar and Vendor Listing Rod Building News New P
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If the guides you want come in a size 5, then I would so something like this - 12 - 8 and then 5's the rest of the way out. You can go back and install a size 8 tamer guide between those first two and at a point that is about 4 inches past the stripping guide, the #12. ..........
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Emory, You're certainly correct - the AA component of the CCS is designed to tell you if the action of one blank is faster or slower than another - that's all. It wasn't designed to provide any sort of dynamic profile taken by a blank as it's being progressively loaded. Several suggestions have been made here to help folks do that sort of thing if they wish. What I'm looking to see is if a
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I will order all those blanks and take a look here. I'll try to get some photos up as well. Just give me a week or so to get everything together. Thanks. ................
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I will get them ordered today. Thanks. In your earlier post you specifically stated that you had two 845 model blanks where the one with the higher AA actually had a slower action. This is what I want to look at. I don't believe such a thing is possible, but I'll have a look for myself with the blanks you say this occurred with. The question is whether or not a slower action blank can have a
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If you try to paint a black wall with yellow paint, the yellow is going to come out darker than it appeared in the paint can. You cannot put a light colored thread over a dark colored blank and not expect the thread not to darken a shade or so. It's going to happen even with CP applied. Over the years many builders have mistaken the look and smell of Elmer's glue for CP. They are not the s
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If it were me, I'd make ferrules from glass. That would be much lighter, although it will take more work on your part. Otherwise, order your ferrule first, measured to fit the general area where the rod is to be cut. Once you have it, then cut the rod to fit the ferrule. Use the lower ferrule piece for sizing. ..............
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I have not heard back from Robert thus far. He may be out fishing or otherwise occupied. But we're trying to get those blank numbers from him and I've already had an offer from a supplier to donate the two blanks so I can take both the measurements and some photos here. I do plan to follow through and will get you the results as soon as possible. One thing I'm certain of is that often when bui
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Eugene, Okay, I misunderstood you. That is the URRS - the Universal Rod Rating System. It appeared in RodMaker Volume 10 #4. It didn't change anything in the CCS but added some additional tools for measuring additional properties of rods and blanks which folks who build casting and spinning rods sometimes like to have. If you will take a few rods, with obviously different actions, and actua
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There is no "choke" guide on a baitcasting rod. ............
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There is no new version of the CCS. There is a new article, which is a condensed and slightly rewritten version of the original, in RodMaker Volume 12 #4. The AA describes overall blank action, just as the older, common system using the terms "fast, medium and slow" did. Action is defined as where the blank initially flexes. A blank with an AA of 70 will initially flex closer to the
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The final 2009 CD in the RodMaker Special Edition Series will be ready in the coming week. It focuses on specialty rod building tools, fixtures, shops, etc. It sells for $29.95 and can be ordered via mail by check or via paypal. There is a limited number of CDs being prepared. If there are any left after the initial orders I will put them on the RodMaker website. I expect there will be some on th
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The transer lettering is colorfast, but could be damaged by the Permagloss. Seal it with a coat of color preserver. ................
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Bobby Feazel Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- ." > > Am I to understand that your suggestion is for > each of us to use our own criteria for determining > the point of intital flexing? If yes, then how is > that a quantative way for everyone to determine > the same point of flexing since any one definition > will probably be diffe
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Removing the butt section will create a rod with a much slower action and one with considerably less power. That might make it perfect, or completely useless. It depends on what you're after. ..................
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You have several options. The Clemens book, Custom Rod Thread Art is a good one, but you may find it hard to follow. Billy Vivona has an excellent book that many find easier to follow. You might like it better, or not. If you can make it to the Expo you can watch folks doing these wraps in person. Or, post your approximate location and see if another custom builder here might be willing to me
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Robert, After giving this further thought - I'd like to buy those two 845's from you, if you still have them. If not, can you provide the brand and exact model numbers of same? I'm going to order the same blanks on Monday and measure them here. I want to see what you're experiencing. .............
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Robert, Looking at them, they are nearly identical, although not quite. They differ only slightly in the photo - one of them is not "noticeably slower" in the photo. This is where subjective terms run into trouble. From that photo I'd say one of them is only slightly slower, or slightly faster, than the other. The one that you say was "extra fast" - did it have a highe
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Emory, Yes I understand, but the measurements, as outlined within the CCS, are taken at a particular point. At any other point, they cease to be the AA and ERN as you would use them to label or describe the power and action per the CCS. The point of the AA is not really to provide you with a tip angle measurement at any specific point, but rather to provide you with a means of determining
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No, the AA is a single action measurement that holds true across the entire spectrum. Remember the measurement is a relative number that is used to compare the action of one rod against another. A rod with an AA of 65 has a faster action than one with an AA of 55. This holds true in any position or amount of flex. Bill's photo isn't a good representation of how to compare blanks. I've expla
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Let’s get back to the original question asked by Alex. I believe he’s referring to the dynamic profile taken by a rod blank as it’s progressively loaded. All rod blanks, regardless of their action, will flex progressivly towards and into the butt area as the load increases. But even at the same state of deflection the route taken to get to that point will not have been the same - I thi
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Even though the AA measurement is taken at what the CCS defines as a fully loaded rod, it refers in a relative fashion to where the blank initially flexes. So don't get hung up on the constant where the measurement is taken - a blank with a AA of 75 will initially flex closer to the tip than one with an AA of 65. It is a relative measurement regardless - it possesses the same Action Angle whether
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Excellent point. As the years have passed and our components have gotten so much lighter, we're able to build much lighter rods so that a rod still considered "out of balance" is not nearly as tiring or hard to fish with as one considered similarly out of balance a decade or more ago. ...............
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Bobby, Again you're mistaken. You and I have discussed this before. The Common Cents System does not use the terms "Fast" "Moderate" nor "Slow." Dr. Hanneman used that table to help readers get their head around the idea that higher AA numbers meant a faster action, while lower numbers indicate a slower action. Beyond that, those terms do not appear and are not u
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Bobby, You can do it by looking at it. It's simply not as hard to do as you seem to want to make it. In fact, this is pretty silly given that the points of resolution within that system are so terribly broad. The Common Cents System is much better and I highly recommend trying it. It's much better than the broad 3 points of measurement offered by the older system. .......
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You should be able to shift the guides for alignment with slight side pressure, but it should take some slight effort. If they slip around at a mere "bump" or light push, they're a little on the loose side. ............
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It's not hard to take a rod blank and give it a flex and easily determine where the initial flex takes place - with such a wide space of resolution it's not at all hard to do. Any good rod builder can make a reasonably good judgment in this regard. But that's part of the problem with that system - poor resolution. The CCS doesn't use such parameters - it functions just like your tape measur
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With lighter colors on darker blanks, use NCP to keep the colors true. Otherwise you can use regular nylon for more sparkle but you'll have to use color preserver to keep them bright. And again, on darker blanks the lighter colors need to be NCP if you want to keep the color just as it was on the spool. ..............
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I have no idea where you're reading any such thing about guide placement - good guide placement varies from blank to blank. I can tell you this - if you put a stiff piece of metal inside that blank - it's going to fail. Count on it. The rod will break just fore or aft of the metal piece. ............
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PDF. They're visual, just like the magazine, no audio. .........
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