Heelo to all, My Brother in law would like me to build him a yellow spinning rod. What he is looking for is two piece or one medium action fresh water. Any help on locating or is it possible to paint a blank ? Thanks in advance, Mark Schulte
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I stripped the finish off of a blank and sanded the whole blank with six hundred grit sandpaper. I was wondering do i have to put a finish on the blank or can i leave it bare. It kinda looks like the IMX, glx Loomis Blanks. Are the loomis blanks bare graphite? Thanks
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Gents I was looking at The Mudhole Site at the Outcast blanks and thought too bad an individual builder can't finish a blank like that. Then it occurred to me that maybe a builder could do it. DuPont Chromallusion Paint. I called a Dupont guy I know and asked him about painting and clearcoating a rod blank and how much flex the paint and clear coat will take and how it would hold up to sun/sand/
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I just got some unpanted blanks in. What can of paint do I use and is there anything I should put over the blank after I paint it before building the rod. Where will I be able to get these items. Thanks
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I have a set of blanks that I want to refinish in a different color. I understand that I can lightly sand and then paint and then cover with some type of clear coat. Fine. But I wonder if this can be done in one step. Here's my idea - Why not take some sort of colored pigment and mix it into the varithane or urethane or whatever and just apply that. I would think this would be fine unless th
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