Hello, I'm currently building a rod, and started with the reel seat. I'm inlaying elk ivory into a rosewood insert. Now I'm looking for wrapping thread that will match the cream in the ivory and as close as I can get to rosewood. Any suggestions? Thank you!
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Hello everybody. I'm planning to build my second fly rod, a 3 wt for a friend. He wants something fast and compact. I don't think it needs to be uber fast, but more responsive than his current moderate. He has a 6 piece that he adores, but I warned him that we may need to go with a shorter 4 piece to expand our blank options. It's a University of Wyoming themed rod, so I'm trying to find somethin
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Lots of awesome replies here. I think I'm going to play around with a few of these options and use whichever works best for me. Spencer, your comments on metallic thread actually remind me of another question I have. I'm working on a build with copper trim bands and I'm finding that they leave a little white, frayed spot wherever I trim off the tag ends. I've played around with it some but can
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Hey everyone! First I want to thank everyone for all of the great advice I've been getting from this forum. Hands down the most helpful forum I've been on. So I'm building a rod wrapping jog and I'm looking for some input on thread tensioners. Right now I'm leaning simply towards screwing some kind of spring down against the thread spools. Maybe it's a ridiculous question but does anybody have
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A saw blade it is then. Thanks for the advice, I'll give it a shot!
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All spectacular ideas! One thing that I forgot to mention is that the gap is not even all the way around, it actually presses tight to the real seat on the other side. Dan mentioned evening out the gap to fill it with thread. Does anybody know of a way I could go about that without chunking up the cork? I'm using a metallic copper thread for accents on the guide wraps, so I do like the idea of us
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Hi everyone. Working on my first build here and I made a little bit of a mistake. Because I was getting dangerously close to relieving too much cork from the handle, I left it a little too tight to the real seat. Once I added epoxy to the equation it left a small gap. Any tips on how this can be fixed? Or at least covered up? It's not glaring but it's just shoddy enough craftsmanship it's going t
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What awesome replies from everybody. I'm narrowed down now to PacBay. I love everything I read about the Quickline, but it's such a close call with the Arctos. I can't find CCS or any other reviews for those blanks.The color is awesome, and they're a little less expensive than the Quicklines which is a plus. It's the power to throw larger flies that I want to be the deciding factor here. I plan o
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Thanks Michael, I'm really glad to hear that. The more I envision it the more I'm starting to lean towards an all black rod anyway. A quick question for you: I can't tell from the pictures online if the blanks have a Quickline logo printed on them or not. Did yours come with a logo? It's not a problem, but I'd like to know as I move forward designing the rod.
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Hi everybody, first time poster here. I'm two days into researching rod blanks here and more confused than when I started. I'm looking to build my first fly rod, a 9' 7 wt fast action graphite rod for big trout streamers, bass, carp, and I'm hoping it'll handle small pike flies. Anyway, my budget on blanks is somewhere in the $120 range, less is of course better, and it can be pushed if I get too
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