Index => Rod Building => Topic started by: Mike Barrio on 25/09/2014 at 15:39
Title: How do you make a fly rod blank?
Post by: Mike Barrio on 25/09/2014 at 15:39
An insight in to how a David Norwich EV2 Carbon Fibre Fly Rod is made :cool:
Title: Re: How do you make a fly rod blank?
Post by: Rob Brownfield on 26/09/2014 at 07:14
:z16 :z14
Title: Re: How do you make a fly rod blank?
Post by: Marc Fauvet on 26/09/2014 at 13:04
all that messy work when you can just go out and buy one... :z4 :shock :X2 :z4
Title: Re: How do you make a fly rod blank?
Post by: Rob Brownfield on 26/09/2014 at 13:08
I hear you can even by a blank with handle, fittings and guides already on them. I believe they call them a rood, or rid or something like that ;)
I hope there is an increase in "Micro rollers" so that we can get access to nieche blanks. It's getting harder to find fishing blanks from the major manufacturers...we don't all want stupidly stiff casting sticks ;)
Title: Re: How do you make a fly rod blank?
Post by: Marc Fauvet on 26/09/2014 at 16:11
or just take those super-stiffies and add sticky-back lead foil here and there along the blank... :z4
Hanneman (the CCS guy) for a while had something he called a 'Feel-Fixer' which if i remember correctly, consisted of weighted tip top to slow down faster rods ! :X1
Title: Re: How do you make a fly rod blank?
Post by: Lasse Karlsson on 27/09/2014 at 20:50
Hi Marc
Not a weighted tip top, but different pieces of lead and sticky tape to put them on with... Have the full set :z13 And I know people who do similar to enhance their rods... Each to each own...
Cheers Lasse
Title: Re: How do you make a fly rod blank?
Post by: Rob Brownfield on 29/09/2014 at 07:17
Could you not just fit heavier guides rather than stick lumps of lead to the blank?
Title: Re: How do you make a fly rod blank?
Post by: Graeme Inglis on 14/10/2014 at 22:28
Unfortunately for us David has now retired from rod building, i am lucky enough to have known David for many years and have several of his rods. His full story is a very interesting one especially on his development of carbon fibre rods, not always the easiest man to get on with, but with a great sense of humour, his skills are rare and have to be admired and he is a loss to the technology of rod building.