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Has anyone built there own Sage rod?
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Re: Has anyone built there own Sage rod?
The feet of your humongus sic eyes where more rigid than any snake very bendy snake eye
The added weight though...
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The added weight though...
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Ah but you also get a stiffening of the rod with snakes compared to recoils!
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Please provide evidence
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He’s pretty big and he’s a Viking!
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I'm bigger, and more Viking, I want evidence, not old wives tales....
Provide please!
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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
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Re: Has anyone built there own Sage rod?
Paul
You already promised to make the measurement with a rod which was supposed to have its guides changed.
Merlin
You already promised to make the measurement with a rod which was supposed to have its guides changed.
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Just do it, because it doesn't sound logic, so not contend with drawing straws over it mate.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
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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
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Re: Has anyone built there own Sage rod?
Thank you all, you have given me food for thought! I'll probably just end up buying a factory model
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Nick
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Nick
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