Hi everyone, We'll be at Fred Hall Show Long Beach this week 3/4~8. This is our first presentation at a show in the west coast. We carry majority of our threads, finish epoxy and reel seats as well as conventional, fly fishing stuffs. Pls stop at booth #1240 if you come for the show. Thanks.
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Just sent Tom.
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If you are for fly fishing, we have very interesting tippet materials along with our new tapered leaders recently released. One of them are so called Camo tippet - camoflage applied at tippet material to minimize spooking fish. Also, ridiculously strong floating tippet for dry flies and completely memory free tippets. Pls check them at our booth. Also, here is detailed list of our selling it
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Hi everyone, Hitena is excited to meet you at ICRBE next week. We will showcase our Kayak Blank and Reel Seat there. If you already know where our quality standard is, you may expect the same from these new products. Kayak Blank - 3', 4', 5' in S Glass and Graphite will be available for sale at the show - Each type has 3 color options (White/Fluorescent Orange/Fluorescent Yellow) - Glas
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Like or not, you are! Thank you!
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Thank you so much for your kind words. We feel happiest when having compliments from professional builders like you. We'll keep bring more and better options in rod building. Thanks everybody!
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David, Yes, AAAA Natural Silk was exactly the one we used for that invisible wrap you saw at our homepage. Wetting with ethanol on the wrap just until the it turns transparent, that was all we have done - nothing mixed into epoxy. We strongly recommend 2 coats coz first coat is applied on ethanol so it's not as firm as pure epoxy finish. Your package was shipped yesterday. Thanks.
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David, Thanks for your call this afternoon. Just to make it clear, we didn't mix acetone in epoxy - we just applied very tiny bit of ethanol on wrap until it just turned transparent and then applied epoxy on it. I'm sure mixing some acetone will give better result but the photo you have seen is a result of using ethanol only. Sorry if I made you confused. Thanks.
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Hi David, If you look for totally invisible wrap, our undyed silk thread (AAAA or AAA) will do the job - take a look at this photo . You just need to thin 1st coat epoxy. If you need something going translucent with a strong nuance of original colors, we have Metallic Noble thread which is especially nice for bamboo rods with its sheen color. You can check how it comes out on dark blank withou
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Thanks Don. We’ll try to bring more thread options for professional builders.
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Hi everybody, Hitena STWRAP Metallic Zebra Stripe is available in 18 colors. This is a blend of metallic jasper and stripe thread and comes out in very unique pattern with multiple colors fused in a single spool. Size is either A or B depending on colors and 100yd spool is available. Please check how this one look like when wrapped on blank. This thread is very nice when used for underwrap esp
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Hi Everybody, Hitena's Nylon/NCP Zebra (Jasper/Twist) threads are now available in 67 colors. They come in 2 sizes - D size in 100yd spool and 2D which is abt double thicker than D in 55yd spool. Both of them make the same pattern but 2D comes out slightly bigger. These are twists of our STWRAP Nylon and NCP threads with the same great quality to be used for any wrap including primary wrap. Ny
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We are the manufacturer of 100% of our products including blank, threads, finish epoxy - everything we are selling in the market. We don't do any OEM from anybody to maintain our quality standard.
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If that includes walleye fly fishing, Hitena is one of them. Currently, we are more on fly and surf casting blanks but you will see ours in freshwater soon. Thanks.
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Fred, I'm sorry if I gave you an impression that way - I knew you didn't assume it. Only reason I added another post later was I got a couple of questions from members after this post asking how our epoxy's non-yellowing is like compared to other brands. So wanted to add some more info on that for everybody. I'm sorry if my 2nd post didn't sound right. Thanks!
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I might have left an impression that our finish epoxy yellows bad, but that was not my intention - our finish epoxy's non-yellowing will be still above average. I just meant better option other than ours is there for those who really need non-yellowing. Since TiO2 in NCP threads, Color Preserver and UV inhibitor in finish epoxy are all foreign materials negative to perfect finish, we are currentl
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Hi everybody, We are often asked what is the mix ratio of resin and hardner by weight for our 2 part finish epoxy - looks quite a few builders prefer mixing by weight. In short, the answer is Resin : Hardener = 1 : 1.2 - theoretically, it is 1 : 1.19 but we still recommend 1 : 1.2. The reason is, it's not always possible for builders to mix in that magic ratio of 1 : 1.19, then slightly more h
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Hi Fernando, I’m sure I was one of your new friends you made at the show :). Was great to meet you and looking forward to seeing you again at Edison show, of course next year ICRBE.
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Hi Arthur, Just arrived here and setting the booth now. All Zebra, metallic, florescent, glow threads are here. See you tomorrow!
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Thanks David. See you there!
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Hi All, We'll carry all our Nylon, NCP, Silk and Metallic threads, finish epoxy and some main braid/fluoro lines and fly tippets for sale at discount at next week's ICRBE. Some new products to be released are, - 77 colors of Zebra (Jasper) wrapping thread (this is nylon, not metallic) - 6 colors of Glow thread and Glow powder - A couple of fluorescent threads We'll also display Surf,
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Hi everyone, Finally, 8 TYPES, 239 COLORS of our Metallic threads are available at our homepage with following variations. (You'll find actual wrappings of all threads on blank at each thread page) - VIVID : 78 colors in Size A & C (Single color basic metallic thread) - STRIPE : 10 colors in Size A - NOBLE : 17 colors in Size A & B (Hybrid of Metallic and Nylon threads, Rustic loo
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Hi Jonathan, Was really glad to see you and your wife at our booth. Appreciate your time to stop and have time with me and your kind words. Hope our ttackles work great for you. Thanks.
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Sure Billy. Should be up for sale at our homepage as soon as we are back from Jan shows. Will let you know. Hi Wade. We should be offering a kit but just thinking how to pick colors out of 240. Kits should be offered at discount when single pieces are on sale. Thanks for your interest.
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Hi Billy, Good to hear you have been busy. It took 4 more months for us to finally release metallic threads - actual production is much more improved from those samples. See you at ICRBE! Thanks.
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Happy New Year, Everybody! We'll showcase some of our blanks and metallic threads at shows early this year. Pls don't forget to visit our booth if you are coming for these shows. Blank - Fly rod blanks (17 type of 9'~15' Fly, Switch, Spey with various wt, Gloss/Matte finish, Some travel rods) - Surf casting rod blanks (3 types of 9' 6' and 10' 6") Actually, we are not quite new t
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Tom, There is a typo on our name. Thanks.
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Hi David, Here is color numbers of our NCP Teal Blue. RGB (0, 149, 198) Hex 0095C6 Pantone 17-4540 This is side by side comparison of 2 colors. . Before/after finish epoxy applied on black blank It looks to me Teal Blue after epoxy is even closer to the one you want to have, if you build on dark blank. Thanks.
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Hi Chuck, I'm sorry that we were unable to release our metallic thread as scheduled. The latest is, A is scheduled in dec and D in feb. What happened was, we were all prepared to release 200+ colors metallic in sep right after ICAST and some samples were already sent out, but we found color fastness of metallic could be much improved to be like that of nylon thread's. Since then, we delayed re
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Hi All, For a limited period, some of Hitena's STWRAP Rod wrapping thread and Finish Epoxy goes at 35% discount at our homepage . They are, - Rod Wrapping Thread Nylon 17 Pack - Rod Wapping Thread NCP 15 Pack - Rod Wrapping Thread Silk - Finish Epoxy (Non-cracking formula) 4oz Use code 'hitena35' at check-out. As always, $25+ orders are free shipping and comes with free return backed
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