adg fly rods and reels??

steve sullivan wrote:

I am not a fool. I may be ignorant, but I am not a fool. What am I
ignorant about?

adg.... tape that simms covets? c'mom, you're hoodwinked.

And what can make you wonder is when you can get an outstanding, warantied,
top end blank, custom wrapped with the best components from a rod builder
like Dan Craft for less than those rods, much less. And this is a
presentation quality, can't find a fault even under magnification rod. Also
these rods and blanks have had nothing but good press. And you get to pick
exactly how you want to build it, or have it built.

"Mu Young Lee" wrote in message
. itd.umich.edu...

Seriously though. Weren't the premium rods $500 before they instituted
these ridiculous warranties? The price didn;t go up did they? Or maybe
the cost of insurance amounted to only $10-$50 per rod.


You are correct, the year that Sage, Winston, T&T and Scott switched to
lifetime warranties, there was no "out of the ordinary" price increase (they
had been raising prices every year before).

Each handled it differently, sage retro'd many of their rods, Winston
offered you a chance to buy a warranty on certain rods, T&T and Scott only
applied it to rods purchased going forward.

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wrote:

daytripper wrote:

Does titanium offer any advantages over, say, boron, in a fly rod?

Yes; you can sell it to suckers for a buttload more $.

Meanwhile, the fish still don't give a damn about that end of the line.

I have a adg 7/8 titan rod and matching reel and I love it. It is much
better than graphite. I dont know if titanium offers any advantages
over boron, I thought that boron was a newer generation allow than
titanium and would be better or equal to titanium, but I have never
tried it. The only disadvantage with ADG is that the warranty repair is
$60, while with tfo its only $25.

Boron has never been uses in any rods in a very high percentage due to it
inherent problems, the biggest being that the fibers are many times larger
than the fibers on a graphite sheet, this leaves more area betwwen the
fibers for excess bonding resin that make the rods much more liable to
fracture or delaminate between the fibers.
Titanium is usually just added to the resin and benefits nothing.
Quartz Matrix scrim and other innovations are in the works that look more
promising.