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Get a old rod blank that will fit in the butt of the new rod.Put your elec drill with speed trigger lock in a vise set speed med.slow . Cup your left hand under the front fore grip for support now use a sanding sponge block just take your time may need to finish sand with 100 grit..Just did one today.

MSC.com and also Mc MasterCarr have metal dye also called Dykem lots of colors sm bottles spray cans and also gal.for the big job.

If you are buying a 1000 why not buy from Shorty's Hook or does this site get the wholesale price? Maybe it would be nice if TU could get the bulk priceing?

Check Haggens lots of long hooks.

Check with Batson rods they have an equal just finished making an 8'6" plug rod.

All reels with ARB will have this problem,just learn how to clean the bearing.(ARB= anti reverse bearing)

Looking to paint just a portion of a #3-5 gold blade. 1 Color's brite green/yellow like the day glo color 2 Want to use an air brush 3 Anyone use acrylic urethane with a hardner ? 4 What type of paint would do this job 5 This blade will be used to troll for salmon in rivers that's the reason for tough coating. If anyone has a better coating or way to apply I'm open. Thanks OLD disabled Vet

After you finish spraying ,Turn the can upside down and hold nozzle depressed until no color comes out about 5 seconds.This should take care of most of the problems.

After the first bend with the wire stop flip the loop over and give it a 20º bend this will make a great tight loop.

All the bearing if not oiled will fail. ASTM bearing google great info

My Okuma Induron is equal to any ABU 1960 round reel or Calcuta 1970? I still use all my collector reels because they still work .My go to reel for Rogue estuary salmon 25-40+ # 400 Induron best bang for this old guys BUCK. Thought all old school ABU reels ended in 0 = right hand only? smile

I have a Boogs and to build one the same would take a lot of time and 5-10 times the money. Geat tool my Boogs if I were to buld lots of long spinner's I would look at the Hagen it's got a longer reach.My Boogs has made 7-8 hundred personal spinners .032 and still works fine.