I picked up two of these blanks. VERY slow action but CCS does rate them at #5. They are tip in butt ferrules, not the butt in tip we look at as "normal". I have painted these blanks. The bright lime green was too much for me.I haven't gone much farther with them but will post pics when they are finished out.
My thought is that these would make great blanks to base a rod swap on!