I've come to start liking the product....I use 2 sticks, to avoid any possibility of cross-contaminiation by intoducing a into b, or vise versa. I tried using the other end of the same stick, but that was inconvenient. I've also taken to mixing it on a smooth, hard, flat surface, much like Bob Ross mixes his oil paints on the joy of painting show, with one of the sticks, tossing the other out.
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Unsure of the supplier/s of product in the USA, but when I bought all my rings, which came from the USA supply chain, either the supplier, or the factory applied artificial "blonding" white stain to fool the consumer into thinking all the rings were pristine, nice and white, and generally of high quality. This blonding stain filled all the minor flaws and pits in the rings. No extr
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The "McGyvers" among you ought to be able to do something with Norm Norlander's adjustable fly tying bobbin....it's like a measuring tape with a clutch....the thread goes out so far, the clutch kicks in, providing tesnion at that point, and poof...it retracts back to zero, if you have to take the rod off the steadies, or back-wind to correct something.. Norm makes the Nor-Vise, and in
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I've used masking tape for many years, with a twist. Rod weight is positively zero concern in these parts, be the rod a flyrod or drift rod. Flyrods are a minumum 9 weight, and drift rods are 10-11 feet. Now that rod bond is out there, it's step one. the fly reel seat is positioned over 3 arbors built up from tape. Very snug. Of course a challenge is, With many reel seats there are longitudanal
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I've used masking tape for many years, with a twist. Rod weight is positively zero concern in these parts, be the rod a flyrod or drift rod. Flyrods are a minumum 9 weight, and drift rods are 10-11 feet. Now that rod bond is out there, it's step one. the fly reel seat is positioned over 3 arbors built up from tape. Very snug. Of course a challenge is, With many reel seats there are longitudanal
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Here's some further options, depending on what type of reel seat you chose.... did you use a fixed reel seat, or 2 sliding rings? If you used 2 sliding rings, you can flush cut your first ring closest to the rod tip, and add more rings. This contingent to you having a cork lathe to machine the added rings to the contour you like, and also a glue clamp capable of gluing the new rings to the old..
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Thanks, folks...I'm beginning to see how it goes. I'm trying my 1st mod this weekend, on a 6' -1-pce boat rod. kd
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In these parts, it's E-poxie....eh-poxie, and ah-poxy would be binder-pilot-speak, and south of 49-speak... :-)
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My mind sees many things in 2 dimensions, not 3, and I'm struggling with the advice in posts, and the concept of maintaining a "straight line" from the reel seat to the last of the twisty guides. I'm not grasping the text everybody's using, as they describe the process. How can a line be straight if it corkscrews, from 0-180 degrees? What did I miss? comprehension on this straight
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Minwax wood hardener ???? do they have a web page, so i can learn more? Thanks.
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Howdy....you didn't indicate preference: Is the FB gonna come off, or is it gonna be perm. affixed? If it's going to be affixed, then you can follow the above post, and advance the reel seat forward the distance you want to accomodate the FB. If it's removable, then you can follow that plan with factory length.
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There are some more options open for you, none of which you may like, but options nonetheless. You could go to an NCP thread, but they kinda look like paint on the rod, instead of thread. Some folks are not into that. You could go to a metallic thread. There's a zillion colours available these days. You could go to a darker colour, be it green, brown, deep teal blue, claret red, etc...... and
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This little trick I use has saved my donkey more than once on wraps with that fish-eye, gap out, or blotch off. It's best practised on a tramp rod first, a couple of times before trying it on a client rod, or your own. Also, you need to know your resin on a first name basis, as they all have different pot lives, and characteristics during their pot life and set time. Mix 1/2 - 1CC * of the res
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Also: for snakes, the Brits use a different measuring system than the Americans. Hopkins and Holloway are very big over there, and have a chart at their site. any search engine will give you the URL for H&H.
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