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  1. I'm with Captain and Wayupnorth, free is my favorite 4 letter "F" word. I come about it a little different though, there is a small time saw mill just down the way from my house so I drop off a few 5 gallon buckets from time to time an then go back and pick them up a week or so later and have more Cedar, Oak, Walnut, Sycamore, Yellow Pine, Poplar.... heck I've got lots of crap from those guys and because they know me so well and they know I love to play with my lathe if they find something interesting that they normally would throw away they hold onto it for me. They actually just gave me a 25lb dried hickory burl that the guy who dropped off the tree said cut it off and throw it in your wood stove this winter:eek:!!! I am new to the lure craft stuff but I use lots of this stuff for reel seats in rod building and basically just playing around with so I really can't tell you what is good or not but I can tell you if you befriend a small saw mill they can keep you supplied in cut off pieces for a lifetime and a half. Steve
  2. Well to be really honest this could turn into a really long post... refurb of boo can be labor intensive and will take a while (christmas break might be long enough!!). First start off by removing all the guides, handle and reel seat if you plan on replacing those. This can be accomplished by wrapping the handle and seat in cling wrap and submerse in boiling water for a good 10-15 minutes try and pull it off, but if it doesn't strat to move return it to the water, when it starts to move get that sucker off in a hurry before it locks back up on you. Then you need to remove the ferules as well and if they don't come off with a little pulling by hand then do the same for them as you did for the handle and reel seat. When you have what would look like an ugly old boo rod with no hardware the you can start working! You'll need to straighten it now with that alchohol burner you're going to buy!! hold the bent part over the heat for a few seconds with the direction you intend to bend it twoards the flame, don't let it get to hot just good and warm (hope this is making sense) then bend it a little too far and hold it there for a couple minutes, after it has cooled a bit check and see if it is straight, if not repeat as needed. Make sure it does not get too hot or you can screw up the whole balnk you should not get any color change unless it is just the first time you hold it over the heat you might get just a touch of yellowing but no and I repeat NO charing. Now you'll need to start sanding you want to start with a fairly fine fine grit, I usually start with 120 then go to 220, you don't want to go very deep with it either basically all you are doing is straightening out the corners and removing any scratches if you see much dust that looks like wood dust and not varnish dust then stop you have gone to deep already you also need to use a hard flat block so as not to round off the corners of the boo I like a small pice of ebony or good hard oak will work also, you can strip the finish but with chemical strippers but I suggest not to as most of the older glues that these rods are built with will not stand up to the harsh chemicals that will strip the finsh off and my cause your rod to delaminate (come apart:eek:). Now to refinsh you'll need a dip tube and spar varnish thinned with naptha (I can touch on that more if you need). once you have a new coat of finish on there all you need to do is replace all the hardware (reelseat, handle, ferules, and guides) and then finsh the thread with the spar (not thinned). Like I said if you need me to expand on the dip tube and stuff I will but I hate to make this thread much longer so.... Steve
  3. You can find the alchohol torch in most any military surplus store out there or the evil online action e site... as for the finsh I reall don't know much abou that as most of what I have done was just as rhahn427 described (cut off, rewrap). Are you working with bamboo, or fiberglass, possible an old graphite??? Just curious on that I do a good deal of bamboo restoration. That is a whole new can of worms if that is what you are talking about, as far as stripping and finish goes I could help you there. Steve
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