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Finally going to get to start my personal build! It is going to be the extreme light weight rod build. 7ft rod geek light fast carbon2 (exact same blank as st croix SCIV) all carbon fiber minimalist furniture and nano micro guide set. Should be one sweet sensitive beast
Reel seat
Thread work is simple cause the purpose of the rod is to be extremely light
Nice work. Like the weave and the winding check. Nice touches. Bought a 6’ house blank cheap and a few of the parts, have a set of guides. That will be my next one. Hope it looks close to as nice as yours.
That’s neat!
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Got it in epoxy this evening and she looks real good. I was at a local tackle shop after the mens conference and picked up a slick smooth reel that matches perfectly, so I'm excited to wet a line soon!
Finished
Rod looks good man, and that's a great rod display!
Dirtrider, Gorgeous set up, love the colors you have picked. Always wanted to build my own, but have no knowledge of going about it.
Again, excellent job!
Very nice workmanship... although I don't know anything about rod building.
Thanks for sharing.
Looks great! Wish I could afford one...
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Jeler go to mudhole rod building supplies YouTube channel and watch through their 101 videos, its slot easier than u would think... thanks for the positive feedback everyone
dirtrider, thanks for the info. I actually may give it a try building my own after I finish up a few projects.
Jeff in Iowa (retired lurker)
Hey welcome to the forum by the way... but I'm going to give u a serious warning, rod building is seriously addictive!
What kind of guides did you use? Need to get a set for my upcoming light 6’ spinner and I am leaning towards the smaller ring higher frame that I’m seeing a lot of lately.
The guides on this rod are the nanomicro set
The ones I think your talking about are the Fuji k high frame. That’s the ones I’ve been using. I have to finish 2 rods for people and I just ordered some special stuff from japan to build me a super high end rod.
Looked at the catalog last night and I think that I’ll be going with the airwaves guides without the insert to cut down on weight. I get a good cast with most every rod I have, even the cheap ones. I’d like to see if the airwaves are going to live up to the hype.
Sounds good been a while since I built one with airwave. If your talking about not using the first striping guide insert, I would because thats what makes the guide set work as them clam. There is almost no weight saving to running a standard guide. if you want to run a standard first guide just look at concept guide " Rapid reduction step down to a runner in 3 or 4 guides like the Airwave" sets and do size 4 or 5 runners. I don't know how much your wanting to spend to cut down weight, but look at the fuji titanium torzite, just be perpard for your jaw it hit the floor when you see the cost lol
I like the Airwave guides. Both the Leland Troutmaster Rod and the Lews Speedshooter have them.
GB, I’m not going all out for the guides on a house brand china blank. I like the idea of the airwaves guide but the weight of the insert ring in the higher class guides is what I’m wanting to lose. The set I looked at was about $20. I also like the higher frame smaller ring that is on the Wally Marshall rods i have but i wanted to try the airwaves. The reel isn’t big and only 3” from rod to spool center so I don’t need to go super high frame guides either. Some of these choices can make your head hurt. My internal hard drive is about full.
I’m going to make a general discussion page so we’re not taking away from anyone’s build so We can continue over there
Sorry, didn’t mean to hijack the thread.