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Rod Building So, you've landed a nice fish on a plug you made, eh? Now, the next step, building your own RODS!

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Old 02-09-2014, 11:36 AM   #1
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I just finished a custom century s1 stealth 10' with 6" off the tip. I did the butt/reel seat with Paco grips using that rubber free cork you gave me billy with a Fuji ergo seat.

I used LC guides, rod is built for a vs 150.

The action is so much better with 6" off the tip, fast recovery and more hook setting power.

I did the layout but had CMS do the wraps and crosswraps in rasta colors. They did an amAzing job.

I just don't have the time to wrap my own stuff with the new restaurant open.

I'll post some pics

I also had them do crosswraps on a bunch of my rods, they only charge $25-30 for a 10" cross wrap with 4 colors. A deal in my book


My next build is to redo the century spod rod. It's 12' now and I never use it.

Going to make it 11'4" or 11', have to play around with it.

I used 1 k frame, then LC guides to single foot bm guides, the rod is great it just never gets used, and they changed the blank so it's going under the knife
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Old 02-09-2014, 04:25 PM   #2
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I just finished a custom century s1 stealth 10' with 6" off the tip. I did the butt/reel seat with Paco grips using that rubber free cork you gave me billy with a Fuji ergo seat.

I used LC guides, rod is built for a vs 150.

The action is so much better with 6" off the tip, fast recovery and more hook setting power.

I did the layout but had CMS do the wraps and crosswraps in rasta colors. They did an amAzing job.

I just don't have the time to wrap my own stuff with the new restaurant open.

I'll post some pics

I also had them do crosswraps on a bunch of my rods, they only charge $25-30 for a 10" cross wrap with 4 colors. A deal in my book


My next build is to redo the century spod rod. It's 12' now and I never use it.

Going to make it 11'4" or 11', have to play around with it.

I used 1 k frame, then LC guides to single foot bm guides, the rod is great it just never gets used, and they changed the blank so it's going under the knife
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They tell me I just missed you the other day at CMS,, helped me pick out a couple on inexpensive 7 footers for the grandkids to build on. Looking at a couple of penn battle 4000 to go with them. Hopefully that will be plenty good for starters. Thanks again for the wrapper, hope to get it going soon.
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They tell me I just missed you the other day at CMS,, helped me pick out a couple on inexpensive 7 footers for the grandkids to build on. Looking at a couple of penn battle 4000 to go with them. Hopefully that will be plenty good for starters. Thanks again for the wrapper, hope to get it going soon.
Now that school is out they had time to finish their first build,,,
Next week use the heck out of it




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