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 Grashpr9 |
Clemens' Book |
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Sport
Posts: 4 (10/21/09 15:35:55) |
The postman deliverd Fiberglass Rod Making I recently ordered via amazon. Interesting to see the separate handles for casting rods. Reminds me of the
bass stick Grandpa made for me years ago,
Now I just need to get this Lamiglass built so I can justify ordering some Batson blanks to cut up. |
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Master Guide
Posts: 434 (10/25/09 10:36:22) |
Great book - he and a few others were into this long before everyone else - formative... Had a great mail order rod building store for years - greatly
missed...
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Master Guide
Posts: 1776 (10/25/09 11:35:20) |
after reading and using that one, you'll eventually want his other great book, ADVANCED CUSTOM ROD BUILDING; both are very informative-p-
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JeffK |
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Guide
Posts: 124 (10/26/09 09:29:53) |
I miss the old Clemens store. He would open up for a few hours on Saturday mornings in the winter. It was a great place to gather a lot of rod building info
since plenty of good builders hung out there. Also, nothing like matching thread colors and size when all the threads are in front of you - this match by
computer screen and mail is hard some days. Then it was just around the corner from the Little Lehigh so you could try to fool a few after getting your stuff.
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Master Guide
Posts: 1411 (10/26/09 12:09:47) |
must have been a heck of a guy. His book will still be good years down the road. I don't build rods and I read this book. It is that good, rather inspiring
to a novice and still of use for an accomplished builder.
JeffK, that sounds wonderful. |
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Sport
Posts: 5 (10/26/09 20:37:50) |
I have The Complete Book of Tackle Making on order. I read the ferrule section online, but it didn't have a few pages which covered spigot
ferrules.
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