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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 07-02-2004, 11:54 AM   #1
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Stars and stripes

Here's my 4th of July rod. I'm not finished yet but I wanted to show it to you guys.
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Old 07-02-2004, 12:36 PM   #2
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Very nice "Grasshopper"
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Old 07-02-2004, 01:23 PM   #3
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That's nice. All that Blue, you wrapped it in one direction, didn't you? I hoope you didn't wrap 1 thread at a time.
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Old 07-02-2004, 01:26 PM   #4
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I did 6 at a time, it still took 4 ever. Now for the guides.......hmmm

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Old 07-03-2004, 09:43 PM   #5
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If you had put some white in there..you'd have a 'barber pole' !


PS : your decals were sent out Fri. afternoon..
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Old 07-04-2004, 12:08 PM   #6
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Wow! Pretty sweet looking rod F-18.....nice work! What model rod is it?

Almost time to get our fish on!!!
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Old 07-04-2004, 01:52 PM   #7
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don't forget lot's of cp....nice job.

BOAT fish do count.
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Old 07-04-2004, 05:57 PM   #8
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Nice!
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Old 07-04-2004, 07:01 PM   #9
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Awsome Dave free time well spent .
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Nice Job!

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Old 07-05-2004, 03:36 PM   #11
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don't forget lot's of cp....nice job.
LOL!!! Don't CP it until the gat together, I'll CP it for you and show you how it should be done. OK? In the least, we'll do a wrap from start to finish that morning and CP & epoxy it by the night.
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Old 07-05-2004, 07:50 PM   #12
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LOL!!! Don't CP it until the gat together, I'll CP it for you and show you how it should be done. OK? In the least, we'll do a wrap from start to finish that morning and CP & epoxy it by the night.
Did it the Capesams method. No problems, looks great. Thanks CS.

Billy, I'm working on one now with all Mederia, I may wait till the thingy to finish it.

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Briefly, can you explain or link to Capesams meth? I'm just curious as to hwo you fixed your problem.
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Old 07-16-2004, 11:32 AM   #14
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Looks great what are you now using for CP and did you ever figure out what went wrong the last time?
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Old 07-16-2004, 11:34 AM   #15
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Using FC now.
I guess I didn't put enough on last time.

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