"mdk77" wrote in message
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Mike those are both wonderful links. Thank you VERY much for your
help, and thanks to everyone else who responded on this. This is a
really nice newsgroup for newbies like me. I think I understand the
downside and risks to building a fly rod. If I would try something
like this it would mostly be for the satisfaction of it and not to
save money. One of the previous posters mentioned that you don't get
a warranty this way, and that IS a good argument for NOT building your
own rod.

I don't actually agree with that. I think you pay a lot for that
replacement warranty, and building your own is a significant saving, IMO,
assuming you don't buy exotic components.