Time change has me trapped inside and I get bored easily. I love ultra light fishing and have a 15ish year old uglystick that the handle was loose on. I decided it would be an easy fun fix and ordered a cool new split grip. That handle totally kicked my rear. It comes with a pilot hole drilled through it and I have to size it to fit the rod. I did this with drill bits and round files. Then used gorilla glue without reading the instructions. I didn't add water and on my first trip the handle came loose. I had to rip it off, clean it up and reinstall with epoxy. The end result is a crooked handle but it works.... I lost that fight.
I have a stack of ancient old rods that I can't seem to sell or give away. I planned on trashing them then I got an idea. I chose an old zebco rod that had lousy, sloppy action. I cut the handle off to find it was a solid fiberglass rod. After sanding all the way to steel wool it came out to a shiny white finish. I had stole eyes from another rod and used thread from Wally World to do the wraps. Then clear coated the wraps with epoxy. Handle number 2 came out much better. Shortening the rod and moving the guides around really cleaned up the action. This should make an awesome backpack rod for trout and white bass.
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I have a stack of ancient old rods that I can't seem to sell or give away. I planned on trashing them then I got an idea. I chose an old zebco rod that had lousy, sloppy action. I cut the handle off to find it was a solid fiberglass rod. After sanding all the way to steel wool it came out to a shiny white finish. I had stole eyes from another rod and used thread from Wally World to do the wraps. Then clear coated the wraps with epoxy. Handle number 2 came out much better. Shortening the rod and moving the guides around really cleaned up the action. This should make an awesome backpack rod for trout and white bass.
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