Has anyone our there have experience with Lamiglas blanks. If so, how do you like the blank? I want to make a 4wt rod that has a fast action and I am considering Lamiglas. Anyone built one with a Lamiglas Blank?
Lamiglas Blanks
Has anyone our there have experience with Lamiglas blanks. If so, how do you like the blank? I want to make a 4wt rod that has a fast action and I am considering Lamiglas. Anyone built one with a Lamiglas Blank?
Fishing the Great Beyond
I'm sure somone will argue with me, but I don't think they are known for any 'fast' blanks.
Agree with JC. One of (all were) the slower blanks we have used.
....lee s.
In 1990 I built a first generation Lamiglass rod 5/6 wt 8 1/2'( my first build)and fished it hard for the next ten years. It is still a fine rod today -- by my tastes. It is much slower than most modern graphite rods.The newer rods are certain to be compleatly different animals, but if they have the same quality today, then you will have a quality blank --- if you like the action.
AgMD
I have built a few of the Lamiglass but only in the fiberglass series, and I anticipate building quite a few more. They are very pleasing to cast. I do know that some of their graphite series blanks are very well thought of in a lot of areas, but I have never heard them referred to as fast action, or tip flex. would be interesting to see one from them like that.
I agree with DLeo. The fiberglass blanks are about the only reasonably priced glass blanks available.
Actually, I believe the XMG 50 /Espirit Series are all fast action fly rods.
Fishing the Great Beyond
That is what they claim.
James,
Do you feel the xmg 50's are not fast? I have only seen measurement for a 9'0" 8 wt XMG 50 (which I have on order by the way) and it has an Action Angle of 70 which is a bit slower than the Dan Craft FT's which run in the high 70's and about the same as the Sage TCR's which range from 65-73.
Fishing the Great Beyond
Hey, all I meant was what I wrote,, "It's what they claim." I know Lami and the guys there, in fact, they were sponsors here for a few years. Power, strength and progressive action were the strong points for years. If you now think they make a high-speed, crisp, fast action rod in the same class as the Sage TCR,,,so be it.
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