I have a 70's fiberglass fishing rod that I would like to have refurbished.
The butt is gone. I glued a dowel in and duck taped it. The rod has sentimental value to me as it as my first salt water fishing rod. Thanks.
I can rebuild it for you? What do you mean the butt is gone? The butt cap or is it broke below the reel seat? Either way its a lot of labor involved. Message me if I can help.
I looked at you-tube and decided that I could try to do this project myself. This is a guinea pig rod.
This is an old 60's maybe 70's fiberglass 2 piece rod. 1st step was to strip it down. I left the reel seat and insert in. Started with 180 grit sand paper and worked my way up to 800 grit. Put 10 coats of Krylon Max on the rod.
I am now waiting on some stuff I ordered to continue the project.
rod looks good! it is such fun to redo rods you are attached to. like that one pool cue you always want to use.
you can get it done. go slow. get on line for advice. make sure the reel seat is aligned just exactly where you want it to be.
use blue/low tack masking tape- the expensive kind paint shops use. the cheap stuff will pull paint/finish of brand new rods. I would not use epoxy for tip top. check your messages.
Krylon Max: Bad
Dupli Color: Better
Permagloss: One coat good. Second coat must be within 15min. If not wait 5 days min before applying second coat or thing will get ugly.
Got the guides wrapped today. What a tedious job. Still
need to epoxy the wraps but that will happen anther day. Third pic is the sister rod of the one I refinished.
Looking great! Lots of reasons to be proud of that work!
10-4 on the "Tedious" job.
I am start a casting rod today. I am going to take extra time and try some different things with the wrapping of the guides. I think it will be a lot of cutting and starting over.
I have found that using an Alcohol Flame and adding some heat sure makes the tiny bubbles go away and levels the coating. My wrapper has three speeds and I have found the fastest speed seems to work best for drying. Slowest when applying, but fastest when drying.
Just finished up the guinea pig rod refurnish. New cork, new paint, urethane, epoxy, and new thread wrap, and butt cap. Pleased with my first effort.
Put the Mitchell 300 bak on. Done
Started rod #2. Painted it black. Wrapping it in gold.
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