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Re: Has anyone built there own Sage rod?
Posted: Sun Oct 13, 2019 6:01 pm
by Lasse Karlsson
The feet of your humongus sic eyes where more rigid than any snake very bendy snake eye

The added weight though...
Cheers
Lasse
Re: Has anyone built there own Sage rod?
Posted: Sun Oct 13, 2019 6:17 pm
by Paul Arden
Ah but you also get a stiffening of the rod with snakes compared to recoils!
Re: Has anyone built there own Sage rod?
Posted: Sun Oct 13, 2019 8:45 pm
by Lasse Karlsson
Please provide evidence
Cheers
Lasse
Re: Has anyone built there own Sage rod?
Posted: Mon Oct 14, 2019 6:30 am
by Paul Arden
He’s pretty big and he’s a Viking!

Re: Has anyone built there own Sage rod?
Posted: Mon Oct 14, 2019 11:30 am
by Lasse Karlsson
Paul Arden wrote: ↑Mon Oct 14, 2019 6:30 am
He’s pretty big and he’s a Viking!
I'm bigger, and more Viking, I want evidence, not old wives tales....
Provide please!
Cheers
Lasse
Re: Has anyone built there own Sage rod?
Posted: Mon Oct 14, 2019 1:17 pm
by Paul Arden
The only way I can see doing it is to build the same blank twice and measure it each time. I think we will have to draw straws for that one
Cheers, Paul
Re: Has anyone built there own Sage rod?
Posted: Mon Oct 14, 2019 4:03 pm
by Merlin
Paul
You already promised to make the measurement with a rod which was supposed to have its guides changed.
Merlin
Re: Has anyone built there own Sage rod?
Posted: Mon Oct 14, 2019 4:16 pm
by Lasse Karlsson
Paul Arden wrote: ↑Mon Oct 14, 2019 1:17 pm
The only way I can see doing it is to build the same blank twice and measure it each time. I think we will have to draw straws for that one
Cheers, Paul
Just do it, because it doesn't sound logic, so not contend with drawing straws over it mate.
Cheers
Lasse
Re: Has anyone built there own Sage rod?
Posted: Tue Oct 15, 2019 5:26 am
by Paul Arden
Merlin wrote: ↑Mon Oct 14, 2019 4:03 pm
Paul
You already promised to make the measurement with a rod which was supposed to have its guides changed.
Merlin
Shit! We’ve just changed a set of guides from RECs to Snakes for shooting heads. Sorry I’ll remember to do this next time
Thanks!
Paul
Re: Has anyone built there own Sage rod?
Posted: Fri Oct 18, 2019 9:45 am
by nicholasfmoore
Thank you all, you have given me food for thought! I'll probably just end up buying a factory model
All the best
Nick