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How To Install Winn Split Grip Handles For Rod Building

I’ve been around the fishing industry long enough to know better than to speak in absolutes. As quickly as fishing technology advances these days, it’s usually a bad bet to claim things like, “best ever”, “game changer” or the dreaded “the only thing to use”. …

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Wrapping Rod Guides From Fly Navarro

Fly Navarro is at Fisherman’s Center in South Florida working with JL, a professional rod builder. They are demonstrating the technique used to wrap a rod guide(Wrapping Rod Guides) onto the blank before it goes to the coating process. Fisherman’s Center likes to double wrap …

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Rod Building – Painting Blanks

Here is a tutorial on painting your rod blanks for a custom rod build from Saltydawg’s Bill Havens. Painting Rod Blanks This is the method I use to paint rod blanks that create a professional looking and super durable finish. The technique is done with …

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A Simple Way To Install Rod Grips

Tips for Rod Grips You don’t have to struggle when it comes time to install rod grips on your blank. I’ve been using this Rubber Cement method my entire career, more than 35 years. I started using this process in the early days of Hypalon …

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Installing a Tip Top on a Rod

This is my method for installing tip tops with hot glue on Salty Dawg Rods. I use this method for rods from ultra light class all the way up to heavy tuna sticks, the only times I use epoxy to glue on a top is …

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Fishing Rod Building – Guide Placement

Salty Dawg Bill with Salty Dawg Custom Rods demonstrates how he lays out the fishing rod building eye guides and tests them when he is building a custom fishing rod. I first start with a couple sizes of surgical rubber hose that when cut into small …

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Fishing Poles Archives | BD Outdoors

How To Install Winn Split Grip Handles For Rod Building

Wrapping Rod Guides From Fly Navarro

Rod Building – Painting Blanks

A Simple Way To Install Rod Grips

Installing a Tip Top on a Rod

Fishing Rod Building – Guide Placement

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