'Brushbeater' is what our local old-timer calls them up here, anyway -- 6.5-7 ft, 2-3 weight, 3-4-piece for crawling thru dense willows to tiny mountain creeks for brookies and smallish browns and rainbows...and hopefully 4-pc for some long backpack trip searches for goldens and cutts.

I'm actually going to BUILD this new rod, but I'm looking for advice from folks who have used the commercial versions, so I can choose my blanks. Our local fly shop offers free lessons and use of their tools if I buy the blanks from them, and since they are a Scott and St Croix pro shop, I can get the best deals on those blanks, but I want whatever is perfect for me, no matter what the brand. They have rods available for hand-on test casting there, but no 6.5 ft, 2-3 wts on location.

SO -- Has anyone out there used a:
Scott F-series?
St Croix Avid series travel rod?
Advice on a another brand that also sells blanks that I should take a look at, 2-3 wt, 6.5-7 ft?

Thanks in advance!

Danbob