Originally Posted By: Chum Man
i have an FS79 that i built from a blank i picked up a few years ago. probably was one of the few un-wrapped blanks still in existence(i was told it was from someone who worked at fenwick who had a bunch of blanks, and he had died).

i put alconite guides and an old-school weibe handle kit on it, with contrasting dark green wraps. makes a wonderful egg pitching stick for small rivers...just say no to plugs.

There's something special about those Fenwick Fenglas blanks.
They even look different than their factory built rod equivalent.
The factory rods that I have handled (and own) have an opaque "chocolate milk" color and the blanks are a translucent root beer brown with barely visible, tiny gold specks.

I've always thought that the Fenglas blanks represented the highest evolution of the form.
Lighter/quicker than Lamiglas S-glas even though they were both S-glas.
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