Mark - for Rod building, you must get "Advanced Custom Rod Building" by Dale Clemmens BEFORE any other book. Read it a few times thru first. This book explains so much and is an excellent starting point. I haven't read the book that specialist speaks of but ACRB is the bible of rod building...
For my first few rods, I took wire coat hangers and bent them so they were almost spring-loaded and attached to my table, then I adjusted them until they all lined up. For thread tension, I put the thread in a small juice glass, then ran it between the pages in a book, and to the rod. I varied the tension by changing the weight on top of the book (I found that an ABU 7000 created the right tension for me
) and was able to wrap with the proper amount of tension and still spin the rod between my fingers...
The process worked and cost me all of about 8 coat hangers to get the size and shape I wanted...
This is ALL in the book. So after you've built a couple, you can decide if you want to dive deeper and invest in a wrapper, continue with the manual way, or pay someone else to build them :laugh:
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