Fiberglass Rod Making

by Dale P. Clemens

Book Overview

Now you can make your own custom rods tailored exactly to the kinds of fishing you do, to your physique and to the rod action you prefer. Completely illustrated. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 087691136X
• ISBN13: 9780876911365
• Release Date: January 1974
• Publisher: Winchester Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.

Customer Reviews

The Best Beginner's Book Available

This is a great book to get started with, it will give you all the basics that you need to complete your first few rod projects. I recommend reading this book first before you move on to his "Advanced Custom Rod Building"

Book Description

Making your own rods is an enjoyable craft as well as a rewarding one. Fiberglass Rod Making takes out the guesswork, leaves in all the fun. In clear, well-organized text and hundreds of step-by-step photographs, it explains how to judge quality in a rod and how to experiment with the variables that can make a rod uniquely yours; where to get rod blanks and other components; how to plan and assemble the rod; how to apply ferrule and guide wraps ranging from the simplest no-frills types to intricate designs of real beauty; even how to maintain your rods and build cases for them.It is all here -- every concievable aspect of building fiberglasss rods from the lightest trout wand to the largest big-game trolling rod.