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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 04-27-2016, 06:30 AM   #2
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Oh boy, so you have caught the virus.

They do make a fancy laser light you can put in the rod holder but you don't need that.

After you get all the guides on and they are 98% good take the rod out of the rod lathe or whatever you used and hold it and look down the blank several times, have a beer, look down it again.

When you see one a bit out of alignment you can carefully take your thumbs and give it a tweak and look down the blank again. The guides are tight but not that much that you can't give it a tweak before finishing.

Jon, 24' Nauset-Green Topsides, Beamie, North River. Channel 68/69. MSBA, NIBA
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