As we speak, the rod components are in the hands of the Pony Express and getting ready to leave The Island Nation of Ohio. They were sent priority mail. Please post on this thread when they arrive at your humble abode. Once everyone has their package, we will decide on a new due date.
Brad
UPDATE
Below is the list of people that have PMed me to tell me their rod is finished.
Jack Hise ROD FINISHED
cholcomb13
shorthaul ROD FINISHED
ol’ blue ROD FINISHED
Jim Flamming ROD FINISHED
Betty Hiner ROD FINISHED
modocdan ROD FINISHED
harleybob87 ROD FINISHED
Erik Osterby
black co
Kaboom ROD FINISHED
bdesavage ROD FINISHED
cheffy ROD FINISHED
setnhooked
Kaboom, just wanted to let you know my blanks were just deleivered. Hang in ther Betty, yours will be there real soon. Thanks again for letting me join in on this one. John
Mine might. Mine arrived in the PVC tube, only the top of the tube was missing. All that is left of the last inch or two is jagged, broken PVC, with the blanks inside actually exposed. At least they had retaped it so the contents didn’t fall out, but someone really went out of their way to destroy it. I haven’t had a chance to check the blanks yet, but it might be a bit of a miracle if they survived intact.
I might have dodged a bullet. It looks like the blanks are still intact. I flexed the sections and they all seem to be behaving normally with no signs of fracturing. Glad they are fiberglass and not graphite.
That stinks! I got 2, so if you want one, I’ll let you have one of mine. Not quite sure how I’ll ship it, though! Let me know your addy and I’ll get it out shortly. It obviously happened at the same station, because mine was fixed up almost identically to yours before I opened it up. Yours took a much worse beating than mine did.
thanks for the kind offer. This just shows how much people care about other her at FAOL. I am going to the post office tomarrow and get my money back from them. They are going to pay for their careless handling of product. Funny they were just asking me why I use Fed Ex and UPS to ship my completed rods. Ummmmm makes a person wonder. I will say this I am staying in the swap if everyone can wait for me to get a new rod. I found them at one of my suppliers for $10 a pop plus actuall shipping. I leave it up to everyone here if you don’t want to wait I fully under stand.
I love it. Just spoke with the usps at 1-800-askusps and they attitude is whooops sorry but we are not going to reimburse you. I will call acidrod tomarrow and get the new blanks ordered. They are preaty good about shipping fast and cheap. OLast week when I was shipping out some flies for a swap the postal service said, “Hey bob why don’t you use our service to ship your rods you build?” Well I think they just got their answer. The shipments had to be hit preatty hard to break the pvc pipe it was wrapped in. Maybe the usps should have bought dhl they would have fit right in LOL
Let me know your addy and I’ll get it out shortly. It obviously happened at the same station, because mine was fixed up almost identically to yours before I opened it up. Yours took a much worse beating than mine did.