I'm hoping to spend under $80 bucks. I'm building a fly rod for 2 reasons.
1. want to build one
2. want to get a better bang for the buck rod. instead of paying someone to do labor costs, i'd rather save the extra money for more flies and gear.

oh yeah, this one has to be as cheap as possible because there may be a possibility I ruin the rod. If thats the case, I won't be crying so much over a cheaper blank

If I spent over $100 bucks on a pretty good fly rod, I might as well just buy some fly rods off ebay.

if there is no $80 fly kit that can rival a $150-200 rod, please tell me so.

Again, I hear a lot of raves on the Batson RX6, but since they don't make that fly rod, just the blank. To what kind of factory rod would that blank compare to?