He did not say, I am waiting on a little more info about that although he asked for a 8wt now.
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I was gave a price range of 4-500 each and now asking for 8wt. problem is they want me to do a turn key set up, reel, line ext.
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Asked to build some fly rods for the Kenai River in Alaska, Advice please on build, they are leaving it up to me. I have never been lucky enough. Thank you in advance
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Ok, thank you all for the advise, It was driving me crazy to leave them how the blank came, I will have to go with Tom advise but I do like how Roger said to handle it, I will have to get some solid ones first to make them. Thank you every one for all your great help. Bret
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Hello all, Question about male ferrule ends on multi section blanks and the Plugging of that portion? what is the normal for plugging them on blanks that do not come this way? { I searched the library but did not find anything unless I am asking the wrong question} So far all I have built is fly rods. any help would be great. Thank you all Bret
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Dave I have looked and been watching some, I guess my problem I'm just not sure what to go with.
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Bill I bought all my thread at the same time off @#$%&, maybe it is not sure, looks good, my tensioner don't seem to have a burr I have run a cotton swab and nothing shows, and tension I have the nut just a turn or too, I have felt when the thread gets tight and it has pulled in farther so I pull it back and re set it.. I have only had a couple pull tags break. Do I need to try different thread m
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Thank you all for all the knowledge and advice, I think I will go with a power wrapper and test the waters for say, I still have my hand wrappers so I'm not loosing any options as I see it after everything you all have said. If it helps then I have gained that much more.. I really do enjoy building and probably put more on my self as far as the outcome this short into the learning but then no on
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I appreciate all the advise from all of you, I have wrote down everything Roger said and have started the quest in deciding on a power unit, I already have 2 dryers, each a different rpm. so that aspect I should be covered. the cork turning I do not know that I will use one for that as I do all my work inside a office that now is the "fishing room" as my son calls it, now to decide the
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Bill Sidney I did, I'm going to look into trying to add something like that to my hand wrapper I have now, the tensioner I am using now gets hard on the thread and it has broken some during wraps, very frustrating..
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Thank you all for the advise, still a little on the fence, I can see where doing trim work and such would still require by hand in a lot of ways, I've watched a lot of videos on wrapping and it seems it leaves you free to sorta guide your thread as wrapping, as I find my self doing now only one hand is turning the rod, I just started my 5th rod and have 4 more blanks ordered, I guess the bug has
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As a added note, to my questions, and reason. by trade I am a equipment mechanic for 31 years now, my fingers do not feel the thread much, when I tie a fly on with say a 7 or even a 5x tippet I do so more by sight, and yes the glasses are needed then, so I was wondering if having a power wrapper would help as I can not feel A thread anyways and c helps but I have a problem keeping it tight as it
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Hello Y'all , I have a question or more so asking about input about the advantages of a power wrapper over a hand wrapper,, noted I understand the speed and possible production, do they help in smaller wraps as far as say 2 or 1 guide size on a fly rod? I understand the cost between the two depending on quality/high end to lower cost brands. I am only on my 5th build and do not plan on selling an
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thanks for sharing we are all human, just finishing my 4th build and the finish has been my down fall.. Everyone on here seems to do amazing work and that's where I am striving to get to.
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Thank you everyone for all the advise, knowing me and how much passion I have for fly fishing or any as far as that goes I will be building rods for all my[ adult now] kids and more than likely just to build. I decided on a custom built hand wrapper made out of wood with 3 stands, a 2 spool tensioner and a dryer with 3 stands, I will see how it goes, build some rods and up grade if needed. Thanks
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Anything you would have added with the initial investment to start? Mixer, more stands etc. I can see adding rails like Mr. Fude said would give more space for adjustments while working.
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Something to start out with. Wrapper and dryer.
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Good afternoon and hello to all, I would like to say first this is a fantastic forum, My knowledge and respect to this great craft of rod building has become 100 percent improved, now I am ready to try my hand in building for my self, thank you to all.. I have been looking at just about every tool out there on the web, seen lots of comments about most but have not found much about the CRB, does
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