The Loomis blanks are very fast. I am currently working on is a 10 foot Loomis 5wt. I have several Loomis rods. I built a 7 foot 3wt St Croix for my wife. I steal that one as often as I can. It is more enjoyable to cast than any of the Loomis rods I own.
Bob Haering [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.comcast.net/~haerbob3 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Martin Westbeek Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 4:52 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [VFB] Rod building question Rix, This G.Loomis IMX is the rod I'm building right now, and it's very fast indeed. Mike, a friend who teaches me to build it, and I talked about single-foot vs traditional snakes. Like you, he says that traditional snakes will result in increased stiffnes. But on a rod building site I read the opposite: there they said that double-footers are heavier, and will soften the blank. According to them the extra weight influences the action more than the larger rigid spots between the double-footers. I wonder who's right... Martin Rix Benson wrote: >Another thing you can do, Rene, is make sure that you >use double-foot snake guides, instead of the single >foot variety. Like everyone else has said, this won't >make much of a difference, but it will stiffen up the >action of the rod a bit. > >Also, something that we've all touched on but no-one >has really mentioned outright...all of these >suggestions (with the exception of actually cutting >the blank) will result in varying degrees of added >weight to the finished product. Aside from making the >darn thing heavy and difficult to cast, too much >weight towards the tip can change the balance point of >the rod and may well throw the action WAY off-kilter >if you're not careful. > >In short, I agree with everyone else...buy the >stiffest blank you can find. A G. Loomis IMX (Slate) >blank comes immediately to mind... > >Just my humble 2 cents... >Rix > >--- Rene Zillmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>List and rod-builders, >> >>question sounds crazy but let's see what it steeres >>up. >> >>You know, I'm in the process of building a new rod. >>I've already the blank. >> >>I want to build the rod as stiff as possible. Is >>there a dependency >>between the positioning and the number of guides to >>the stiffness of the >>finished rod? Or depends the stiffness of the rod >>from the blank only? >> >>I can imagine that the distance between the guides >>would modify the >>finished rod's action a bit. Any knowledge ot there >>about this? >> >>BTW: The Rhines level is rising slowly. Hope I can >>return to fishing the >>Rhine in some weeks! >> >>Rene >>in Germany >> >> >> > > >__________________________________ >Do you Yahoo!? >The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search >http://shopping.yahoo.com > >================================================================ >Deze e-mail is door E-mail VirusScanner van Planet Internet gecontroleerd op virussen. >Op http://www.planet.nl/evs staat een verwijzing naar de actuele lijst waar op wordt gecontroleerd. > > >
