Re-Guiding the Second Rod

After finishing the TFO Mangrove (and it's been a couple of weeks as of this writing - I'm behind a week) - I got to work on fixing the Nitro Graphite 13'.

This one went pretty quick (after all the practice with the TFO).

Re-eyed Rod

The last post I made on going fishing with the kids had a note about my favorite spinning rod losing the rings in a couple of the eyes.  Well, its been several weeks but I finally got the motivation to redo all the eyes on this rod.  I decided to redo all of them since these were the second and third rings to pop out.

I paid a visit to Brian's Fishing Supply and bought a full set of titanium ringed guides.  Hopefully these will holdup for a while.

I spent the last few nights removing the old guides and wrapping the new ones on one by one, and I put the epoxy on last night.

And since I'm on a roll, I'm going to do the same for the 13' Nitro, and redo a few of the wraps on the Epic Fiberglass Fly Rods I put together.

Projects Stacking

Besides the two foils I've been ignoring, I also got a couple of fishing poles I need to fix.  The eyes have been popping out (age, use, both?) - I figured I should just replace the whole string on both rods instead of piecemealing like I have been.

That means marking the current locations of the eyes, removing, cleaning, wrapping and laying epoxy.  When I actually start, that will amount to a couple of weekends of work.  And since I'm rewrapping, I could clean up the Epic fly rods I put together...

More projects...

Replacing an Eye

On one of my fishing rods -

Now to go fishing!!!  This is a very long lightweight spinning rod!