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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 02-08-2004, 07:57 PM   #1
Bawana
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Join Date: Dec 2003
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Sorry was away went to see my youngest graduate from Parris Island.Looks good FA did you do that with 20 first guide and then go to 12 then 10*s kind of hard to judge size in pic.How does it now cast.You using with 4 0r 5 oz jigs.Have been seeing stuff about using high frame for first guide to get it way out to side so transition stays off blank.Any problems with it being close. Mostly interested in how it casts.----Yes Salt I do mostly A work Just happened to mention I used larger on 80-130 rods as top wrap. One of my mentors used to do even these in all A thread and its tough to do because of the thickness of the feet on the large roller guides.Takes a lot of shaping to get A up onto foot of an aftco 52 roller.Now at the risk of coming under neuclear attack was thinking if you just wrapped on guides with A from the flat part and coated you wouldnt even have to shape foot and guide would be completely filled in underneath so penatration wouldnt even be an issue.Then go and wrap from blank onto foot.Now thats getting Lazy!!!! Wounder how the cracking would be in the Epoxy---- Coating between wraps sure makes it easier to wrap A over A because it doesnt keep falling into previous trac(gutter) between threads. Are you letting it set a couple of days between coats to harden up because I have seen the A groove right into the epoxy and then its just about impossible to burnish the thread if there is even the slightest gap.
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