RCaillouer3;
Just finishing my first rod. An H&H 9' 3 wgt. IM6. This rod is intended to be used from my float tube for Blue Gills.

The build was quite a learning experiance so I strongly suggest getting the vidio. A member in CA. sent me one that realy helped and I have just passed it back to another member in CA.

Getting the wraps down is, or was, difficullt for me. I mixed my final thread coat epoxy wrong and it did not dry in two days!! Had to give it another coat this afternoon, I hope I got it right this time?!

The IM6 kit was reccomended by a friend that builds rods. "It's been around a long time and proven". The cost was about $70.00 and you get enough epoxy to do 4 more rods.

Somewhere in FAOL "Rod Building" is a discription of a Mouse Trap Thread Tensioner.
It works!

I had an electric rotisserie I bought at a garage sale for $0.50 and turned it in to a rod dryier. It's grinding away behind me.

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I feel more like I do now than I did when I got here!

Cactus AKA "Lucky Dog (Pirate Name)"

[This message has been edited by Jack Hise (edited 28 July 2005).]

[This message has been edited by Jack Hise (edited 28 July 2005).]