It is currently 23 Apr 2024, 12:25


New Topic Add Reply
Author Message
Post 02 Sep 2019, 17:08 • #1 
Guide
Joined: 02/26/15
Posts: 219
Location: US-north ga.
Not fiberglass but I wonder if anyone built spinning rods
on these big butt graphite blanks.
My rod building buddy built quite a few of them .
,,Most we're six footers with a quick tip.
Eight and ten lb. test line and your favorite spinning
reel taped directly to the blank.
Very sensitive to contact to structure or a fish striking a
jig.
I can't remember who made the blanks.
This were made in late ,1970s
14inches from butt up to where winding check would
normally be.
Butt section measured one in diameter.



Imageupload picture and get a url link

Image


Top
  
Quote
Post 02 Sep 2019, 20:18 • #2 
Piscator
Joined: 08/10/05
Posts: 19107
Location: downtown Bulverde, Texas
that's not linear graphite, at least on the butt - it's woven.
Matrix is a current manufacturer of woven graphite blanks.
Lamiglas makes use of a woven graphite butt layer in their Triflex inshore rods.

Don't know who might have made them in the past. My Japanese 7'9" XUL rockfish rod uses a woven butt.
It begins with glass, an exposed glass tip, linear graphite over 70% of the blank, and woven graphite layer on the butt - it would make a great dry-fly rod - throws 1/2-g, protects 2-lb test, and has a powerful butt for turning fish.
It's actually the same idea as a flared butt on a cane rod - a light action rod with fish-handling power in the butt.

Image
Image

Image


Last edited by bulldog1935 on 03 Sep 2019, 05:08, edited 2 times in total.

Top
  
Quote
Post 02 Sep 2019, 21:52 • #3 
Guide
Joined: 02/26/15
Posts: 219
Location: US-north ga.
Oh yeah, you can see the transition at the winding check wrap.
It could be lamiglas I guess.
Some experimental stuff maybe.
My rod building buddy bought blanks directly from
lamiglas when they first started making blanks.
Short lived thing I guess,
I've never seen any others
That's a interesting rod You've got.
Never had the pleasure of seeing one


Top
  
Quote
Post 03 Sep 2019, 06:48 • #4 
Piscator
Joined: 08/10/05
Posts: 19107
Location: downtown Bulverde, Texas
Japanese Rockfish rods are starting to get a following in the US, had a following in Europe longer - only the Japanese would design UL and XUL rods just for the salt.
You can see some more if you search Rockfish Rod on ebay.
Just stumbled on this 5-pc, which looks really cool - https://www.ebay.com/itm/Hara-TIGA-rod- ... 4310412881
(the Japanese are big on multipiece, because they travel public trans to get everywhere, and a long rod on a train would lose face)

NorieS makes the high-dollar version, which my two aren't, and am delighted with them.

I hunted these down beginning with Rakuten 8 years ago, then used Noppin for my Japan broker to buy them when I had the links to what I wanted to buy - a reliable broker, great English, and better shipping than Rakuten's shipping broker.
But now you don't have to go to that trouble - Japan vendors are coming to us on Ebay, and major tackle brands are picking up the trend.

My niche is canal and dock fishing under the lights - bought them for kid-fishing nursery seatrout, throwing weightless bait rigs up to sail in the wind.
Soon found they were great for schoolie trout, and incredible for sight-fishing large seatrout, when the key is matching small bait size.
Image
the small is 16"
also about the best fillets the Gulf coast offers
Image


Top
  
Quote
Post 03 Sep 2019, 08:11 • #5 
Guide
Joined: 02/26/15
Posts: 219
Location: US-north ga.
Hey bulldog,
I had to educate myself about japanese rockfish before I understood
what you were talking about.


Top
  
Display posts from previous:  Sort by  

New Topic Add Reply



Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 6 guests


You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum

Jump to:  
Google
Powered by phpBB® Forum Software © phpBB Group