Rod building questions.

[Patrick82]

This always happens to me. I get into something and when I get through, I have too much stuff left over. Not very cost efficient and pretty wastefull all around.

Any of you know approximately how much stuff I need to make a few rods?

I plan on building three rods.
Two GSB1081Ls (one is for Mindi so I'll let her feel it and if it's too long, it might get cut back to 8'6" or even 8 even) but the other one is definitely staying at 9. I would actually like to have it 9'6" but what can ya do? If both stay at 9, each will have 9 one footed guides. Of course cutting off the butt might change that.

The other rod is going to be the GSB1201L. I was wavering back and forth between that and the Allstar but I found a blem so I went with that. This rod will have 9 double footed guides.

So including underwraps and a short chevron wrap, approximately how much thread do you think I would need?

How much epoxy?

How much cork tape will I need?

I'm talking aproximate amounts here. I just don't want to wind up with 60 feet of cork tape, a gallon of epoxy and enough thread to sew a quilt. Ya know?