Anyone get a $27 blank off of ebay by a seller named GetBent? Curious if it's worth it. Seems like most of these cheap blanks have poorly fitting ferrules.

Thanks for the review! Thinking about the gray 6' 2wt.

a blank for $27 is worth it even if it has some issues. buy two and use the parts you like.

You can always dress the ferrules. A caution to others: clean the ferrule thoroughly to remove any remnant manufacturing debris. Use the rod a few times to enable any "wear-in" process. A few temperature and light changes will take place during this time as well. There can be very, very slight compression and stabilizing of the mating surfaces. Then, if convinced the gap is longer than need be, consider dressing the ferrule.

As Whrlpool said I purposely didn't fit the ferrules until I fished it a little, the long gap has closed a little already and if I was't so !!!! it would be fine just the way it is.

As a side note I bought a 7' 4wt from a shop/guy in Wyoming, it is white/transparent (looks just like all the other China blanks for sale out there) and as Cheffy says the glue joints really show. The real issue I have with it is the terrible layup, very rough with globs of glass/resin in two different areas of the blank (making the blank extra thick), haven't fished it yet but will be shocked if it feels good. I suspect Get Bent looks over their stock and rejects the bad ones, no way to know but all three blanks I have bought from them look good. I'm fairly confident the white one will get cut up for repair parts if ever needed.

I wasn't swearing in the first paragraph but evidently the computer program felt it inappropriate, so let me say I'm too picky.

I've built a few rods (20+) using these blanks for myself and others, aside from aesthetics they perform very well.

No performance complaints from anybody yet.

They are not perfect looking like say Epic blanks, which are the high end blanks I am familiar with.

Here's one I put together earlier this year.

Nice !