I agree entirely that the U40 brush cleaner is awesome stuff but I would rather buy in bulk and not have to ship it. Thank you to those of you who supplied chemical names that I will check out. This should save me a significant amount of money. Thank you all again. James - Sporting Wood Technologies
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Does anybody know what the chemical epoxy brush cleaner is made out of? I go through enough that ordering it 2 oz. at a time is ridiculous. I want to buy in bulk but don't know what the chemical is. James
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I bought a fishing rod antenna from Bass Pro and I have been thinking about retying the guides so it looks nicer. And I used quite a bit of locktite because my shotshell antenna topper was stolen 2 days after putting it on. James
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Thank you everyone, I think that I might just be able to overcome this issue now. You have all been helpful as usual. Thanks again all. James
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George, Incidentally, I was kind of thinking of the opposite as a reason for this problem. I primarily only build on fast or ex fast blanks and this is a medium or medium fast, so it has more flex than most I build on, so since this is the first time I have had this problem I assumed that was the reason. Thank you though, I will try a static load test with the guides equally spaced. Thanks agai
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I am building a set of rods for my Uncle, incidently I build more rods for him than myself. I am under a pretty tight deadline and have run into an issue. I am building him an UL casting rod and have come upon a problem while trying to place the guides. Usually I place the guides according to a similar rod, then do a static load test and adjust the placement if not the number of guides. It has al
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Tom's post kind of reminds me of a debate I heard once about who really invented electricity. Well, nobody invented electricity, but basically who invented ways to harness it with the all mighty light bulb. Often thought to be Edison, one of the other great minds of the time is said to be the real producer of that invention, but I have a feeling only Edison or the other guy who's name presently e
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You better use plenty of color preserver first like George said, if you let the permagloss touch the bare decal, it will be an ugly head ache. One of my many disasters. In fact one of the first blanks I painted, the finish nor the paint I used could stand up to permagloss. Thank the guy up stairs that it was on the split grip portion so I did not have to completely re-paint the blank. I would say
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Since the finish on the blank might already be in trouble if you are re- doing a rod, that you could just scrape it off with a blade, or use acetone and take all the finish off, then just take some cheese cloth and apply a new coat of finish with perma gloss. I think that that might be the easiest way. If the finish situation on your rod is fine and you don't have permagloss another path would ob
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I just took a look at these and they are crazy amazing. I have to build a rod with one of these. I don't care if I have a project that could use one of these, I will build a rod around the seat. Beautiful, I can't get past how amazing they look, and they are small enough to put on a bass rod. I have been thinking about building a bass rod that can double as a snook rod when I visit my cousin in F
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I noticed on a couple of my fuji alconite concept guides that I had similar flaking that only took place during filing. It didn't worry me in the least, but Billy's post has me worried about their finish quality if they also chip from being banged around. I don't get to fish as much as I used too so the many rods I have built so far mostly with Fuji alconite guides haven't been used enough for me
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Steve, they get just as micro as the micro fly's i usually use. James
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Not if I can help it, but it might be used in some moderate cold. Not for ice fishing or anything though. James
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I trying to decide between two different types of guides for a rod for myself, a novel idea since it seems like I build for everyone but myself. I have built two rods, some of my favorite, on phenix blanks with the AT Titanium Casting guides with nanolite rings. The rod I am building the way I designed it includes those AT guides, but while browsing Mudhole I noticed some potentially awesome guid
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But if the hole is a consistent size and the blank is tapered, wouldn't their be more pressure pulling more finish off of the blank the further down it you get? James
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In general, stress testing is the process of putting a material under stress for the purpose of testing either the strength, compression or deflection rate of said material. For the purposes of custom rod building I would imagine that blank manufacturers stress test blanks to determine the failure point when put under immense stress, basically by bending until the structure of the blank fails. Fo
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I know that you take pride in the fact that you keep the number of advertisements down in the magazine, but I actually really like the advertisements, because they alert me to new products and makes it sort of a catalog slash magazine. So personally, I would not mind increased advertisements and of course increased advertisements would decrease the financial burden on you and maybe even drop the
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I personally place my threadmaster lite in front of a heater, it does thin it out, does not seem to accelerate the set up time, I do it, because it gets rid of practically all bubbles. Very nice. James
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Ok, it works like a dream. Now this may seem like a stupid question, but I am assuming that this can works by taking the screw out and draining whatever amount of the permagloss that I need from the hole with the top on and then put the screw back in? James
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Spectacular Erick, I will get right on that, thank you. James
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Surprise surprise, trouble in paradise. I went and got a can. Poked a hole in the can near the bottom and then threaded a screw into it. I can't get it to quit leaking out, even though it is leaking slow. I have tried 3 different size and thread type screws in the hole with the same results. I am beginning to think that maybe I should have put some electrical tape behind the screw or something, b
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Wow, once again it seems that you all have come through for me. Last night during the post I started to consider a paint can, but I never would have thought to put a screw hole in the bottom. And thank you Bill for including a picture, because as simple as the idea is, the picture really took all doubt away. Thanks again everyone, I will now be a man of the can. lol James
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Since you all handled my last problem with such ease I figured I would bother you all with another. I have the larger size perma gloss bottle and after many times opening and closing it with the top being stuck, the plastic top finally came apart. Just enough was left for it to catch one tier of threads. Since, the top doesn't seal well enough unless it is stored upside down in the first place th
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Thanks everyone, I just so happen to be lucky enough to have a scrap piece that fits, I was about to use it to make another reamer. Good thing I didn't. I think that all will work out well and boy am I glad that this lesson was learned on a 14.00 rod rather than the 125.0o one I did right before it. Wooo. Thanks again everyone, once again you all came through tremendously. James
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Ok, I made a huge boo boo and need to know from the rod building gods out there if it is fixable. Here is what happened. I was trying to clamp my split grip with my reel seat to close the seam in a cork clamp, doing that will end up in the whole grip just sliding down the blank unless you stop the grip somehow. Last time I just put one of those squeeze spring clamps that look like a capital A on
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What are these skins that you guys are discussing? Unfortunately, despite my best efforts i did not get to make it down to last years show, even though it would have been my first show. James
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yellow, brown and red or yellow brown and purple
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I have been building on Phenix blanks lately and I have nothing but paise for them. They are very limited in their selection, but as far as your worm rod goes, I think that you couldn't do much better. It could be a hair faster for the real lite finesse, but they are so light and straight. I am glad that I went with these over the G Loomis blanks that the customer wanted at twice the price. You w
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I love that blank, and I built one of my favorite rods on it, but I don't think that it has sufficient backbone for hauling bass out of cover. Good luck. James
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That makes perfect sense, guess I just got caught up in what I just thought looked like a pretty novel idea. Never really thought hard enough about it apparently. Exactly why I come to you guys. Thanks James
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