Fly rods for sale

Hye got some fly rods for sale

check out www.whitetailmicroplotters.net for details

They are wicked nice. selling them for my friend.

Also www.fishnewengland.org if you fish the new england area

Hye got some fly rods for sale

check outwww.whitetailmicroplotters.netfor details

Is a fly rod still truly a custom rod when you don't make it to the
buyers' specs? Also, the major reason folks use cork and not hardwood
for grips is that the cork is softer (try walking on a cork floor then
on a hardwood floor), so is less stress on the hand. Additionally,
the cork grip is not significantly affected by water (i.e. it doesn't
warp or become slicker). Other than looks, what is the advantage of
hardwood grips?
Frank Reid

On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:55:35 -0800 (PST), Frank Reid
wrote:


Hye got some fly rods for sale

check outwww.whitetailmicroplotters.netfor details

Is a fly rod still truly a custom rod when you don't make it to the
buyers' specs? Also, the major reason folks use cork and not hardwood
for grips is that the cork is softer (try walking on a cork floor then
on a hardwood floor), so is less stress on the hand. Additionally,
the cork grip is not significantly affected by water (i.e. it doesn't
warp or become slicker). Other than looks, what is the advantage of
hardwood grips?
Frank Reid

As well, I suspect having a grip that doesn't flex produces a stress riser at
the top of the grip that could prove deleterious to the life span of the rod.

I can't think of any "advantage" for a hardwood grip short of personal
aesthetics...

/daytripper

On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:11:33 -0500, daytripper
wrote:

On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:55:35 -0800 (PST), Frank Reid
wrote:


Hye got some fly rods for sale

check outwww.whitetailmicroplotters.netfor details

Is a fly rod still truly a custom rod when you don't make it to the
buyers' specs? Also, the major reason folks use cork and not hardwood
for grips is that the cork is softer (try walking on a cork floor then
on a hardwood floor), so is less stress on the hand. Additionally,
the cork grip is not significantly affected by water (i.e. it doesn't
warp or become slicker). Other than looks, what is the advantage of
hardwood grips?
Frank Reid

As well, I suspect having a grip that doesn't flex produces a stress riser at
the top of the grip that could prove deleterious to the life span of the rod.

I can't think of any "advantage" for a hardwood grip short of personal
aesthetics...

/daytripper

Plus, I'd offer that just about everything, such as hardwood grips (or,
ahem, grip inlays...), has been tried by makers over the last 100-plus
years. If there was anything positive about something like this, there
would be more of it. Bottom line - there is little "NEW AND
REVOLUTIONARY!!!" in flyfishing/rod construction, and just as in many
things, reinventing the wheel tends to leave one, um, flat...

TC,
R
And no, I didn't go to the website and have no intentions of doing so...

I'm not that keen on hardwood grips either, and the guy probably made a
mistake with this posting, but why do we have to be so aggressive to
people who make tiny, unimportant, innocent mistakes with their first
posting on Roff?

Lazarus

I'm not that keen on hardwood grips either, and the guy probably made a
mistake with this posting, but why do we have to be so aggressive to
people who make tiny, unimportant, innocent mistakes with their first
posting on Roff?

Just asked the question and was hoping the original poster would come
on and tell us why these things are better than one with a cork grip.
No such luck. Seems like its spam and run and I wouldn't have said
that had that poster come back to us.
Frank Reid

On Sun, 02 Mar 2008 19:01:26 +0000, Lazarus Cooke
wrote:

I'm not that keen on hardwood grips either, and the guy probably made a
mistake with this posting, but why do we have to be so aggressive to
people who make tiny, unimportant, innocent mistakes with their first
posting on Roff?

Lazarus

"so aggressive"?

Care to point out precisely where your oh-so-sensitive threshold was crossed?

/daytripper (personally, I don't see it at all)