thanks for your replies. I really appreciate the time and effort you'all spend in order to help me and others.
Thanks a lot
Best whishes from Germany
Rene
Tony Spezio wrote:
Rene,
I read Henk's reply. I would go along with it. I will add, roughen the ID of the seat.
I have had some failures with 5 minuet Epoxy and reel seats. I will suggest 2 ton epoxy instead of the 5 minuet.
Now I will pass this info on. The last thing I do on a rod is glue the reel seat after the guides are wrapped and the epoxy is set on the wraps. The seat is assembled and installed with the glue. When the glue sets enough to keep things together, a reel is put in the seat and use it as a guide. It is lined up with guides. I hold it in place till the glue starts setting a bit more. I have a rack with a "V" on each end. You might of seen them in my tying room when you were here. The rod is set in the "V" with the guides down and the reel down. I leave the reel in the seat till the glue sets enough to remove the reel.
You can't be sloppy with glue doing this or you might have a stuck reel in the seat. You can wax the reel foot to keep it from sticking. This also insures that the reel foot will fit in the seat hood after the Epoxy is set. If any epoxy seeps in the hood, it will form around the waxed foot. Make it a point not to get any epoxy where the foot is.
This may not be for everybody, I was doing this years ago with bamboo rods where the guides are on flats. If the reel seat was off a bit, there was no way you could slide the guide as you can on a round graphite rod to line it up.
I had not planned on a long reply but I thought it might help you and others.
Tony
Rene Zillmann wrote:
Rod building experts,
I started my fifth rod building project. It will be a 2 pc, 5 wt. rod, build on a pac bay blank, which I got for 50% of the usual price.
Here is my question: For all my other rods, and in all descriptions is said, that you have to use some masking tape, in order to fill the gap between the blank the the reel seat - usually the boring of the seat is larger than the diameter of the blank.
Well, in this case the reel seat fits very close onto the blank. I have to use a bit of force to move it onto the blank. Not a lot of force - aproximately the force I have to use to move the seat on a blank which was wound with the tape.
The tape is softer than the wood of the reel seat - I think it is rose wood. Is it possible, that the wood of the seat will damage the blank sometimes? Will the glue work? Should I enlarge the boring of the seat and use at least 2 wraps of the masking tape?
Have others experience with such close sitting reel seats?
Best Rene
