Rod Building Clinic

[Tony Ong]

For those that have expressed their interested, we will be meeting before the next club meeting (Tuesday 2nd July) at 6.30. This first session we'll try an work out what rods each person is interested in building, as well as some help selecting components etc.
We'll touch on tools and bits and pieces that will be needed for this project. I anyone is interested in listening in, welcome to come along.

[Andre Rossouw]

Thanks Tony

[Stephen Winsor]

beautiful! looking forward to it

[DNYE]

Would love to attend but i fly out to a mine site on tuesday mornings and return thursday mornings

[Martin Kuhn]

don't worry David...we can do this via email also.
Have a think about what weight rod you want, Top end blanks are about USD$350 such as sage, T&T, CTS. The rest are less down to ~15o-ish. Decide what your budget will be and we'll take it from there.
Check out mudhole (note they do not stock all of the blanks that some manufacturers have available....)
cheers
Martin

[Hirdy]

Martin, do you think it might be worth putting a group buy order into Mudhole? Would that save on shipping costs? (I don't even know if their shipping costs are reasonable, or if they are horrifically expensive like a lot of other US companies ... )

Cheers,
Graeme

[DNYE]

Sage one 3wt to start off with, then maybe i might do a big bruiser of a rod next time round..

[Mick Lymn]

Hi guys I am back from a great trip to Exmouth (milkies, permit, tuna etc) and will be at the rod construction meeting.
I am looking to have a crack at an 8wt, not sure what brand, I hope to get some advise.
Cheers Mick

[Stephen Winsor]

I'm going to build a saltwater spec sage one 4wt

[Martin Kuhn]

Graeme,
yeah I reckon we should do a group buy...the shipping's not bad, but everybit helps.
I'm thinking of doing an 8wt, or a 9wt or a 10 weight or an 11wt, or....
I reckon we should have our chat on Tuesday and start putting together a combined shopping list
cheers