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So you have your Dad's fishing rod and the memories that come with it - the time you went to the Bob Hall fishing pier and caught a red snapper, or the time you went to Colorado and caught a rainbow trout on his 11ft fly rod.
Alas! The rod has suffered through the years and is now missing a guide, some of the others are almost ready to fall off due to the windings disintegrating, and the reel seat slides around the rod. Or maybe you were at a yard sale and found an old classic for $3 that you'd like to restore and you are wondering what the steps are to rebuilding the rod to usable condition again.
Never fear! Unless there is significant damage to the rod, you should be able to bring that rod back to sparkling new condition! Granted, it will take a bit of elbow grease, but hey, it's a labor of love, right?
There are many steps to this process, so I'll be detailing out the methods to rebuilding a rod from the fiber up. I will cover things like how to verify that the blank is worth rebuilding, and how to strip a blank down to nothing but the bare blank and recoat the blank so it's ready to build from the "ground up".
Things that are not covered in this guide: How to build a fishing rod. The steps covered here will relate specifically to the tear-down and re-finish process. Re-building the rod will be something you will already need to know or will glean from my other posts on how to build fishing rods.
This guide will be posted in separate pages over time. This will take some time, but hopefully you will have a full guide to the process of tearing down and rod and preparing it for a new bright and glorious future.
Stay tuned!
Mike
HCFR
Go for the best quality product possible and research before purchasing one. Wasting money is not something anyone likes, better spend sometimes on research and get the right fishing accessories.
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