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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 12-20-2012, 07:15 AM   #5
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That blank isn't going to fail no matter what you do to it.

Rewrapping the whole tip section to throw an extra guide into it, particularly if you are going to put a 50mm 40" out the rod, seems counter-productive to me. I'd leave it alone and fish it, if you have braid overwrap issues rebuild it with K guides. An NGC option is not very expensive if you use alconite K guides.

The handle looks heavy. Are those hypalon grips? If so it is not a very big deal to cut all that off and rebuild with a NPS seat and xflock.

The GSB132m is a wonderful blank, but a bit heavy and slow to start with. Putting large guides out the tip like Lami does is a poor choice. It makes the rod too heavy and too slow. Free it up with light small guides and it will compete favorably with any of these new blanks.
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