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Kat is one fine lady. Congrats Kathy

Looking good Mike. Sand the Tru Oil finish (after it dries) with 400 or 600 grit wet, wipe it off with a coffee filter and reapply your Tru Oil to the grip and keep doing it until you're satisfied...

If you want to practice casting with sinking lines, you need not worry about curve casts, slack line casts, or recoil casting. The faster the sinking lines the smaller diameter they are. I think...

You might want to look at this Dan Craft blank. Excellet blank.
http://www.dancraftent.com/detail/index.cfm?nPID=210

reel seat and hardware
http://www.insertbyles.com/

Then all you need are...

For under a hundred bucks you can get this.
Orvis' Battenkill disc drag
http://www.orvis.com/store/product_choi ... %5Fid=0385

Or at a hundred bucks- Orvis' Battenkill Bar Stock...

Beautiful job, Mike. I love your reel seat too. Is the winding check slightly tapered?

So, what do you do? I don't think you can run a 0.022 butt of Maxima Chameleon through the needle provided with the splicer kit (I know, I tried).

Do you run an extruded leader through the line...

True. But, it's a great way to put your butt section onto your fly line. One less knot to go thru the guides.

RTJ

Barrys- how many inches from the end of the butt section? Put an inch marker there, if it's not in your regular sig section.

RTJ

Hey guys, here's a few pictures of birch bark fly rod grips. Can you say give me some bark.
http://www.rodbuilding.org/photopost/sh ... 507/page/1

and another...

dleo-No mention of why the epoxy. Just guessing, since he's a rod builder, he has the epoxy on hand . I don't know if it would be any stronger or any more water proof.

rizeye- I guess I should...

I just checked my Rod Maker magazine. Antti Kymalainen's article on birch bark handles. What he says when you glue them together, do not glue more than 20 rings together at a time. Use a slow cure...

Duckersterman, you and I think alike. It's scary. I was thinking the exact same knot....

Jim, check with Betty on that one, I think she's had sticky Sylk problems when the humidity and temp is high in her neck of the woods. I fish sometimes in 95?+ weather. Had Sylk since it came out. I...

Sorry dude. But you wanted to know :D I'll get the duct tape and we'll put the lid back on.

RTJ

Look it up in your state fishing proclaimation. It should define what a fly is.

RTJ

I like them, & fish with them. Tried Orvis braided leaders- they threw too much spray. You really notice it when the sun is in front of you.
I mainly build 6/0 Uni thread leaders, grease them with...

Perhaps the cane and the graphite are grown in different countries.[/quote]
Grown? So where do I find a graphite bush. Or is it a tree.

And you're calling someone else a blonde?

Jonezee, my humblest of apologies. The bamboo's are built in China, and you're most likely correct as to where the graphite rod are built/made/produced.
My younger brother had bought a 3w (I think...

Jonezee, out of curiousity, I went to the Elkhorn site
http://www.elkhornflyrodandreel.com/flyrods/bamboo.cfm
It says the rod is built in the province of Tonkin China, by master craftsmen. So which...

Talk to the builder. You two work it out. You want light- go titanium guides & tip top, graphite reel seat.
You want it pretty- See Golden Witch. http://www.2computerchicks.com/Merchant ......

Spray some Pledge on it and wipe it down. Clean your line often. Use some Glide or Zip Cast on it. Don't put it in the sock and tube wet (if you've been fishing in the rain or snow.)Don't clean the...

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FG....you bring up a point that I think can be an issue......so frequently.. we talk to each other but we may be talking different fisheries....so what we say as dogma..doesn't even...

Ducky, put your rods on Ebay. Google custom rod builders or ask the guy that built your RPL's. Compare the prices. Blank for factory rod. Z-Axis blank $323.00- $335.00 for a 5w 4pc . Factory rod is...

I've read these posts about "how many $600,$700 rods do you own" with interest.
I say there is a butt for every seat, and put it in perspective.
$700 for a fly rod doen't seem so much now.
Check...