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oh also i forgot to post about this rod that im rebuilding other than i did the final finishing coat of glue.
>cut off the old guides
>find the spine, its not aligned to the reel seat
>take off the reel seat with a blow torch
>put on fresh guides that are larger and now aligned to the spine
>glue on reel seat and a fighting butt
>order drying motor and glue
>finish thread wraps with epoxy
>finished curing this morning
>i played with it a little bit in the parking lot of work
>6 weight mastery magnum is a little light, but i can get a good loop with it
>9 weight air cel line is a little heavy, a partial head gives me great loops
the aircel is a true to weight line, and the magnum is 15 grains from being a true to weight 7 weight line. i'm thinking a true to weight 8 weight line will cast perfectly on this rod. im just not sure if i want to get a fairly standard taper full intermediate taper for streamer and popper fishing smallies with or wthout polyleaders, go for a skagit head, or try to make some frankenstein shooting head out of a cheap 10 weight line and wind up with a shooting head for overhead casting that can also throw a single hand spey cast in a pinch with interchangeable tips from a 12 foot floating tip (made of the tip of the line we cut off in the process) and some 12 foot sink tips i can have a sick little set up for smallies (assuming it works)
if i fuck up, thats $35 ill never get back, if i dont then i have a cool little thing.
