Spent the day doing rough work. Splitting, flaming, sanding nodes, pressing nodes. Its not the most exciting part of making a rod but I like it. All these preliminary steps, taking a raw culm to squared and staggered butt and tip strips is the laying of a foundation. Some pics from the day.
Volunteers to wrap some sticks??
Ruffles have ridges. So do nodes.
Torch em.
The cast was perfect and the hookup was textbook stuff. The line ran through the guides at a great rate .....
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