Well I might get the AB then. From my understanding, it's a switch on switch off deal. Hey 2 for the price of one, I might get one and try to sell the other on E-bay or to a tackle shop or I might just use the second one for parts. I don't have any conventional rods yet. The first one will be the Sabre. I also have that 7 foot Fenwick Seahawk blank upstairs that I'm going to make into a party boat conventional and slap my penn long beach on there. That's for another day.
Now, before I get to asking more questions, I'll answer the rest of yours.
John, the reason why I wanted the Clemens Lathe is because I believe that the better the materials you use, the better the end product will be. That's just something that I have learned. I might just go with a cheaper one though. I feel as though I'm in that middle bracket of not just a couple rods and I'm done and not a pro-builder that needs to turn a rod out a week. Just a guy that once he gets some spare change can pick up a blank and add to his arsenal or repair his arsenal and maybe even make a christmas present for a friend.
Now, onto Mike's post. I will be using Powerpro with both these rods. You are sure I can just go with Hard-a-loys with a SiC tip?
Now about this Batson blank, do you sell them? I don't know if you realized this, but I was planning on buying the blanks, thread, cork tape and some of the tools from your shop. You have been most kind to answering my questions. I'm not sure of the guide sizes yet or the size of the reel seat but I'll probably come back to you for that as well.
For the corktape, I'm gonna go with the small EVA grips on either side of the reel seat. Then for the end, I'm going to go with a wrap finish into a 6 inch Chevron wrap and then wrapped to end the chevron. The Chevron will be 5 threads wide, two black, one gold and two black. Underneath will be the Gunmetal. The guide wraps will have Gunmetal underwraps with black wraps for the guides and a 3 thread wide wrap in the middle of the guide in gold.
The experience I've had with reel seats is we put masking tape underneath in three rows so it would fit the inside diameter of the reel seat. Then we covered from the edge of the left tape wrap to the edge of the right tape wrap, including the blank inbetween (this will be cork tape though instead of blank.) I suppose this will be very much the same. The question I have though is, when I put the EVA ends for the reel seat, won't that smear epoxy on the cork tape? Will the acetone take that up?
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