Here's my second of many stupid questions:

I received my rod building kit from Hook & Hackle in the mail today. I tried to fit the reel seat to the blank (dry, no epoxy - just fitting it up) and the inside diameter of the reel seat is significantly larger than the outside diameter of my rod blank. The I.D. of the reel seat is about 0.503 and the O.D. of the blank is only around 0.384. Should I just wrap tape around the end of the blank to increase its O.D.? Or am I missing something here? Thanks in advance for your help.

-Darryl