need suggestions

[kissfan4]

Ok so i am in need of some suggestions, i am looking at making a memorial/tribute for my father to hang on the wall, and i am trying to figure out a way to curve a fishing rod and make it keep that shape. Does anyone have any ideas of how i can accomplish this? the only thing i could think of was to try to find a thin/strong piece of metal that i could bend and attach the rod to, but i want to keep it as clean looking as possible.

[CrappiePappy]

Ok so i am in need of some suggestions, i am looking at making a memorial/tribute for my father to hang on the wall, and i am trying to figure out a way to curve a fishing rod and make it keep that shape. Does anyone have any ideas of how i can accomplish this? the only thing i could think of was to try to find a thin/strong piece of metal that i could bend and attach the rod to, but i want to keep it as clean looking as possible.

I don't know if it will work with today's rods .... but, I left a rod in the back seat of my car, a long time ago, and it was so long that it stayed bent at the tip. I don't remember it staying in the car for more than a day or so, but when I took it out the Sun had set it permanently in that bend.
I've also heard of rods getting a permanent bend set in them, from having the line pulled tight & making the tip stay bent ... & leaving them in the trunk of a car (heat) or back of a pickup (Sun). But I don't know how long they'd have to be exposed to the heat/sunlight to permanently set the bend in the rod.

You might also consider putting some heavier line on it, than what you'd normally have on it to fish with, then bending the rod with the line anchored to hold the bend. If you were going to mount this display on some kind of backboard ... you could mount the rod to the board, then tie a bait on the line or just use empty line & tie it to a small nail/screw/staple in the board to hold the rod in a bent position. If you have a fish mount, you could also use that ... maybe even run the line into the fish's mouth & out thru the gills on the backside & tie it off to a nail/screw ... make it look like the fish swallowed the bait (and not have the tension of the rod bend pulling on the mount).

... cp

[BR1]

Could you put a staple on the back side of the eye on the tip, put your bend in the rod and put staples on the back side of the other eyes?

[BoarBuster]

What comes to mind and I am not totally sure it will work but my thought is that it would is to tie a piece of heavy nylon twine to it then pull it to the shape you want and tye it off. Then use a heat gun to heat it up until it relaxes. Once that happens just leave it and let it cool. It should keep that shape without any other weight being added.

[BuckeyeKdog]

Old Bamboo rods could take a set if they got too warm and were not hung properly

[crappiepappa]

Or, if using a board backing route the shape you want the rod bent and imbed the rod in the routed groove maybe?