X2 on the 832 suffix. Daiwa samurai braid is great but I don't think it casts as well as 832. The green power pro kinda @#$%& the super slick is good but for casting 832 beats it. Never tried the others sorry
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I have built a few tilefish rods. I would say that spiral wrapping is a great idea. All that technical stuff about tapered blanks creating twist under load that is then converted to force helping the reel stay upright will come in to play big time with this type of fishing. I would further advocate the simple spiral. I don't use rollers ever i think with the advent of the sic ring they are dinosa
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Hmmm... Thanks everybody. I think too much epoxy on the outside of cork may be the, or one of the problems.
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I am good for at least a few dumb questions a year so here's one. I was turning cork on my pac bay machine all rings were glued and compressed together with cork clap, and noticed that the cork was wearing down on one side of the too of the handle faster than the other. Now further more the bottom of the handle was the opposite thinner on the right where the top right was thicker then top left. I
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I have looked at the offshore series blanks online however i have never played with one myself. This really has nothing to do with what I want. This is what my friend wants. If it were up to me I would show him a 70l hercules, a cbgt841m and a calstar gfx70l and say which one? This guy is particularly tough on tackle that's why I think for him a composite is the best route.
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Thanks for clearing that up. I'm never sure what carbon fiber means anymore. Why would one company call graphite, graphite and another call it carbon fiber? Marketing? Anyway speaking of graphite I am going to build is sc4. I know that price point wise it's better than the other which is sc2. So it's better graphite but why it's better remains a mystery to me. Btw I want to say I love st croix I
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He has never even held a phenix blank! I may just tell him to hike his sad rear end to sports authority and buy an ugly stick! Your right he's is all over the place. To me all that means is he won't be happy with whatever he gets because he has no idea what he wants in the first place. Any way thanks for response btw do you get the hercules blanks in a lot of different colors? Do you have any 7
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Well after more negotiations (mostly whining on my part) he has dropped the st croix thing and now wants a calstar 800xl or a phenix blank. I am much more confident with the calstar as its a composite and has been around forever. Although I feel it's too fast action and I keep recommending moderate action composite blanks. But what do i know im just building the rod. Was looking on phenix site it
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Thanks for quick response! Btw I built that super fluker lite and the thing is awesome for porgy fishing! It seems that no matter how much I tell people that graphite is light in weight but can break, if it breaks there all like dude there's really nothing u can do. Irritating.. Btw is seeker still making the hercules 70m I don't see it on your website?
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Oh boy. A friend of mine has decided (on his own) that he wants me to build him 2 blackfish rods. The first one he wants built is a 2m610mf rated 17-30lb line. The second is a 4m79hmf rated like 30-65lb line or something rediculous like that. I am concerned with the hole graphite blank thing. I would really rather build one inshore lite and one inshore heavy hercules but in this instance my opini
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Yeah dude he seriously has the best stuff in the world. Boil it in water and your good no heat gun needed.
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Thanks for all the input everyone. I'm gonna give these a shot!
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Hi all! I build mostly 15-30lb, 20-40lb and 20-50lb saltwater rods. I had dismissed the pac bay minima guides as a "freshwater" thing. However recently I bought some to try on one of my projects where I will be using a 20-50lb Muskie blank to throw live bait for stripers with 25lb test mono. In this case I am concerned with the strength of the frame of the guide. Also I will be buil
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Thanks again. Yeah may dream reamers get stuck a lot I will try running them in reverse. I looked up the reverse flex coat drill bits. I think this will work. If not i looked at some large auger bits for woodworking which may work also. This still doesn't address the taper but might be better then what I'm currently doing.
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Hey all. Thanks for the input. I am not really concerned with eva. As stated above I buy it close to the OD of the blank and push it down. Cork is the problem.
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Yeah I called MSC and described what I wanted and they have them. For one from .862 to1 would be 360.40! Oh and at that degree of taper I would need like 6 of them to get from 1/4 to 1 inch. Hmm maybe there is something else
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Yeah I use those now and their ok... I am looking for an all metal type that you don't have to re-glue that sand paper tape which is a pain.
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Hi all! I read a prior post about about having a machine shop make reamers that will chuck into a drill. Has anyone done this? I build larger saltwater rods and the grips come with a 1/4 inch id hole. It takes a long time to move all the cork out to a id of 3/4 to 15/16 of an inch. Nobody got time for that! Does anyone know of tapered reamers that are available commercially? My local machine shop
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Oh, one thing does anybody know what he is talking about when he says he is fishing with a belly in the line? I have heard of this for cod fish but no idea what this means for blackfish.
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Thanks! I actually used my hercules 70h in Florida and caught a small mutton snapper, yellow tail snapper and triggerfish. Wow those things fight hard! And they taste even better... Especially the trigger fish that won the blind taste test. Anyway I love my rogue 706 for striper drifting live stuff but I think this guy will get hung up in a wreck and try and pull the cork out of the ocean. I h
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Hi all, I have questions regarding two specific blanks for blackfish. One is the hercules inshore lite and the other is the calstar gfx700l. I talked my buddy who wants a rod built out of a rouge sw706 blank which he loved because its so lite.. It seems everyone us obsessed with a stiff blank and I can't understand why. Any way this guy is a maniac and I could easily see him high sticking this ro
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I really like all Batson stuff especially the alps reel seats. I have not looked into guides so much but thanks for tip it is a real possiblity. I have another question with a diawa 30 should stripper guide be 20 or 16? I have been getting away from 20's but want to know what people think. Thanks again everybody
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Yeah am most likely to use a daiwa saltist black gold 30. The size 10 guides are for looks I could use 8's but then the OCD kicks in because the top ring size is bigger then the running guides. I tie an Albright knot from braid to mono shock leader so the 10's will help pass that too.
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Well I just got my seeker super fluker heavy rod blank today in the mail and I am absolutely in love with this thing! This blank is like a dream come true! It's moderate action with a slower taper and possibly the lightest blank I have ever held for the rating it has. This thing is going to be stupid fun to fish montauk fluke and porgies, deep water sea bass and bass jigging come November. I am j
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I paint rod blanks but am new to doing it. I have yet to have any of these panted rods see uv exposure for any length of time. However with high quality automotive paint you should not see any degrading of color for quite a while. i mean a car sits outside for quite a while before it starts to degrade. I do not think any rod will see that kind of exposure. A pro to painting the blank is that yo
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Well that's funny because these rods are never casted at all. I am in the northeast where we use a highly scientific method of tying on a sinker and hook and dropping bait to the bottom where hopefully something eats it. One day I will get a digital scale and weight the difference between painted and unfinished blanks. Then this issue if weight will be, at least for me, put to rest.
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Hi Bill I have never worked in a body shop or painted a car in my life. I bought all this equipment to paint blanks exclusively. As I am a fan of some off the wall colors, I had to go hvlp over spray can for color options. For example, I don't want blue, I want ocean Maui cloud mid-pacific blue. I did use tamiya paint and spray max over that and that came out great. Only problem is spray max is
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That's awesome. Thanks for your help. I had heard you did a presentation at a NERBS gathering. I wish I had been there. I am only using "so much material" because I paint candy. Silver, tinted transparent mid coat, and then clear. I usually only do two base and three clear. Thanks for the tip with the sem stripper.
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I am using a detail or "jam" gun. The gun I used had a .6 needle which is the only one I comes with and I think that's as small as they get. I think this is an adhesion problem and the paint is slipping because it has not bonded to primer. That being said I'm probably wrong.
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Ok I think I know what the problem is. I used a plastic primer I think. That caused the paint on another blanks paint to wrinkle. Why the paint only started to wrinkle when I put the hok paint over it. That being said is paint stripper safe to use on a rod blank? Or should I just wet sand it all off? I read an awesome artical by Ralph O'Quinn that explains in great detail why not to use acetone.
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