rw wrote:

You don't need any expensive tools. A cardboard box and a heavy
dictionary will serve for doing the wraps. The only place you might get
into trouble w.r.t. equipment is that you need a slow motor drive to
turn the rod while the epoxied wraps are drying. If you have a
rotisserie on your barbeque rig you could probably use that.


I used my rotisserie motor when I rebuilt my Sage tip last winter. My
epoxy job didn't turn out that great and I thought it was partly due to
the motor turning too slow. I think it wouldn't be too hard to rig a
little pulley system to speed it up a bit. I'm going to experiment with
it next time. The first time I built the rod, the shop I bought the
blank from let me borrow a motor drive.

Larry, if you can tie flies, I'm sure you can build a rod. Go for it.
There is a certain satisfaction to fishing with a rod you built.

Russell