Is it worth messing with?

[rainbowchaser]

I have an old three piece kingfisher bamboo rod that I bought many years ago at a garage sale and used a few times before decdiding that it felt like casting with a golf club. It hasn't been used since. The tip is really warped and the finish is in bad shape. Most of the guides are rusty. On the bright side the ferrules are good as is the blank with no apparent splits. It casts a six weight line fairly well but still feels very heavy. I thought about working on it while I'm laid off but wonder if this will ever be worth the effort. Would I be better off trying to sell it for the thirty dollars I have in it and look for something that else to fix up? Will straightening the tip help with that feeling that the rod is fighting me? I am not interested in increasing the cash value of the rod since if I fix it up I wont't sell it. I'm just don't want to put a lot of time into it and then sticki it away for another ten years as not much fun to fish.

[ET custom flyrods]

The decision is strictly up to you. As mentioned before about bamboo rods ,I would guess your used to casting a graphite rod and bamboo has a different action & cast differently.

As for your old rod , chances are it's fixable, but you will have to decide weather of not you want to put the time and money into it that may be needed. When you say the tip is warped, I'm assuming you mean has taken a set in one direction or the other and not that the flats of the blank have twisted in a spiral?

A set can be removed in a number of different ways using heat. Guides can be replaced and re-wrapped, grips and reel seats can be replaced. All this requires time and some sort of monitary investment. If your rod was brought back to new or near new condition , its worth would be strictly a measure of love , as it really has no collector value as is the case with most mass produced rods...... Again .....its all up to you.