mdk77 wrote:
I ran across this on the internet and wondered what the advantages and
disadvantages are to building your own fly rod.


If I can do it anybody can do it. I built a rod from a Sage Graphite II
two piece blank in 1988. A few years later I broke the tip trying to
dislodge a fly from a tree. (Hey, it was my last fly of that kind I had
and it was catching fish.) I sheepishly told Sage what I had done. They
said it was no problem, they would replace it. Because, by that time it
was an older blank, they had me send in the whole rod so that they could
match up a tip to it. They sent me back the rod with a new blank tip and
I just had to rebuild it.

Russell

Who's bookmark file exploded after reading through this thread. I'm
getting a hankering to build a new rod.