On Mar 10, 12:26 pm, rb608 wrote:
On Mar 10, 11:01 am, Steve Cain wrote:

The windings are pretty beat, the
guides a bit bent and the reel rough. I want to clean it up. I can fix
the reel, certainly. A few new bearings and a good dose of CLP and
we'll be on the way. The fiberglass is another issue. Do you guys have
any recommendations for good books on repair of rods?

I think it's really great that your son has such an interest in the
rod; but for my $.02, I'd suggest not putting too much effort into
it. If you wanted, you could put some time into refreshing the guide
wraps; but if you do that beyond a functional necessity, you'll be
giving that rod more standing that I expect it deserves. That's not
the rod that should be the focal point of your father/son fishing
genesis IMO.

Tape up the guides well enough to catch a few fish. Then, since your
son will have proven himself such a great fisherman, offer to buy him
his own new rod. I guarantee both of you will "love" the new one more
than the old one.

I still have a photo of my son catching his first fish on that Mickey
Mouse Zebco, and it's a great memory. I do not still have that rod.

$.02,
Joe F.

I looked it up, the damn thing is $11 at Walmart, so there's no point
spending too much time on it, no matter how bad the cabin fever gets.
We'll get him a big boy set one day.

Still, it needed a bit of work, so he and I went to the basement and
we put a thin coat of epoxy over the wraps and in the ferrules.
Actually, I epoxied it, he tried to glue a screwdriver to his hand,
broke a propane torch, dumped half a box of 4d finish nails in the
sump hole and kicked over a basket of clean laundry. A good time was
had by all.