13 Wrapping Fishing Rod ideas fishing rod, rod, custom fishing rods
In fact, I was a little surprised at how good of a job it does! To make this support, find and mark your centerline on both of the remaining longer top box flaps that were cut off earlier. After you mark your centerline, cut the two longer pieces in half.
I haven’t seen a box jig that uses adjustable height blank supports or an adjustable height stand alone blank support to be used in conjunction with the box jig. My intention here was to make an easy to duplicate and functional fishing rod wrapping jig. I think more people would enjoy building or repairing their own fishing rods if they could quickly and inexpensively make a wrapping jig themselves.
The rod features a carbon fiber handle which was then painted with colored epoxy to mimic a rattlesnake. In front of the handle is an actual western diamond back rattlesnake skin. The rod also features a butt cap consisting of a fly cast in epoxy. The rod has a carbon fiber handle, an epoxy cast reel seat insert and a fly cast in the butt cap. Christmas package rod sleeve, reel bag and engraved grip. I used the 4 cm wide across the top and 4 cm long from the top edge to the point size again here just as I did earlier when making the supports for the main body of the jig.
Now cut out the v-shape you drew on this piece with some scissors. Now cut out your v-shaped notches using scissors and you are finished making your rod blank supports. Here are a few pictures of a test wrap I started using the wrapping jig.
I made my v-shape 4 cm wide at the top and 4 cm tall from the top of the flap to the point of the v-shape. You can make this whatever size you need to make, but the size I used will work well for most rods. 9’ 4 piece pack rod, CRB graphite blank, 8 weight fly line.
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