Arden HT What about the Sexyloops Ardent? I also like the original name because it is quirky, and the rod will never be a mass market Sage, Loomis, Orvis or whatever so most of the people are purchasing it not because of market hype but because they know you through instruction or through the websi...

Merlin, The Orvis patent was just my example that rod manufacturers are actually doing some more advanced R&D (which i guess you already know). I feel like some people don't give them enough credit sometimes (i know I didnt). Is your spreadsheet similar to the other cane rod design softwares aro...

Hi Bob To my knowledge Loomis has been bought by Shimano years ago and although I have never measured a NRX I would bet there is not a single slope in this rod. Everything is possible like reuse of older mandrels, you are right in saying that sometomes tips have a "compound" mandrel, so t...

They most certainly use a single, tapered mandrel. Nope :p , or only for cheap rods. For a modern 4 piece rod with sleeve over ferrules, you can have up to four different mandrel slopes, a number of types of carbon fibers of various resin content and fiber areal weight. That's a different world fro...

I just read Paul's FP from Monday and it got me wondering, how do companies like Sage, Scott, and Loomis design their rods? I've heard mandrels are very expensive, do they stick with the same mandrel throughout the evelopment cycle and just vary the graphite layup, or do they make new mandrels with ...

has anybody had a chance to cast these rods? They don't sell them in the US and I was wondering if there is any difference between these and rods without a graphene resin system, since they are as heavy or heavier than competing rods.

Graeme what strength line do you use? I was fishing for GT last month with twisted leaders and I missed all 3 of my opportunities on decent fish (10kg+) because they saw the leader. At least that's what I think happened because I could see the leader in the water from 20ft away, but it was 40lb fluo...

VGB wrote:I think the method #5 has a stiff tip and bends below the tip. It feels stiffer than the TCR to me on short lines but softer once you get into longer lines. Perhaps just a different profile?

Regards

Vince

Thats what I thought about the method as well.

On the drag or for protection? I use Cal's for the drag and corrosionX for protection

Paul if you ever were to build a rod less than 4 pc I think 3 pc would be better than 2pc because it is stronger. On 2 pc you have a single joint being stressed whereas on 3pc the force is spread over 2x the contact area. Also most rods bend the most near the middle, which is where the joint would b...