I'd recomend you don't get into the rod building buisness. Unfortunatly I did and I'm constantly broke. I tend to build about three rods a year for myself and a few others for friends. I'm starting to build rods for situations I'll probally never encounter. I've built about ten rods for myself in the last three years at about two hundred dollars per rod. I'm just wondering what kind of fishing trip I could have sent myself on for two thousand dollars. If you start building for yourself beware. There's always a better rod to be built. Fish on!