Rod building supplies?

Other than Greg's in Lake Stevens,is there a shop you can recomend? Any good mail order catalogs?

considering Gregs prices and the cost of shipping, I would think he would be hard to beat

Mud Hole.
http://www.mudhole.com/

Anglers Workshop, in Woodland, WA, is my favorite. 360-225-9445 is the phone number, I believe. www.anglersworkshop.com

Check out www.rodbuilding.org

Lots of info and sites to ponder.

Fool

Teds Sporting Goods in North Lynnwood on 99 used to have a good selection of rod building supplies. Or try Cabela's for a catalog of rod building supplies. Janns Netcraft also used to have rod building supplies. Good Luck

D&E Rods in Battle Ground, WA also carries a wide variety of rodbuilding components and blanks. Check us out at www.dnerods.com or call directly at 1-800-574-3856.

Bryan Buxton
D&E Rods

i am thinking about building a rainshadow 1025 casting rod and i was wondering if anyone had and ideas as to how many guides to put on one of these. My loomis gl3 1024 uses 8 plus a tip, but it touches the blank all over the place when it flexes. this hasn't bothered me before, but the more i have been reading I am starting to think this is a no no for custom rods. will the rod perform better with more guides or will the increase in weight make me regret adding the extra guides

I was thinking about going 10, 8, 7, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, tip

I built a RS 1143 over the summer,I used 10 guides plus the tip. The guides were 10,10,8,8,8,8,6,6,6,6, then tip. For an 8.5' rod I'd put at least 9 guides and tip.

By the way, if you don't know ,an 1143 is 9.5'

http://www.shofftackle.com/

I thought Shoff's closed? I looked at their website and they have good deals on RS blanks. Did they close the store to become i-net only?

This thread is on suppliers, Angler's Workshop is close. If ya wanna talk guide spacing, start a new thread . Jon

O.K. Rodman.....Who the F**k are you to tell me to start a new thread . I started this one,and if I want to talk guide spacing,I will.

Sorry HBP! LOL Anglers is still close to your house. Does everyone know what the "Concept" is ? The concept "Is not correct" I'll leave it as this.... I won't get into apples and peaches with the guides and spacing. Jon maybe a later thread. LOL

Apoligy accepted.

hbp if ya wanna test some rods on my water.... I'll by the gas.... use my rods.... u buy the beer... Jon "apoligy accepted"