What's in the box? The guys over at MidCurrent film the unboxing on one of our Fly Rod Building kits - the 476 FastGlass Fly rod building kit in this case.
A great gift and winter project: the very best components available, all designed to fit together seamlessly for both novice and experienced rod builders.
Your choice of finest quality Portuguese cork grip
Epic reel seat
Guide set (Snake brand Universal guides USA)
Glue kit (preloaded syringes, grip & tip epoxy, brushes, mixing cups & full instructions)
China-graph marking pencil
Rod stands
Comprehensive 42 page build book with step by step instructions
Stickers / Decals
Everything you need in a fly rod building kit, and then some.
Each of our Epic Ready to Wrap Fly Rod Building Kits contain everything you need to build a great fly rod. We’ve done much of the hard work for you.
The components in our Epic Ready to Wrap Rod Kit have all been specifically designed to work together. Each cork grip is ported to receive our Epic reel seats perfectly. Easily assembled step by step.
Each fly rod building kit even includes rod wrapping stands.
Inside the box - the Epic Ready To Wrap Fly Rod Building Kit
At best the term “5 weight’ is used to describe the weight of fly line a given fly rod designer reckons you should be casting on their rod. But with line measurement effectively out the window, things are really starting to go pear shaped here....
Which weighs more, a floating fly line or a sinking line? It may surprise you to know that they both weigh the same - at 30 feet anyway. Or at least they should. For example, under the AFFTA system for rating fly lines a 5 weight fly line is a 5wt regardless of whether it is a floater, a sinking fly line or an intermediate.
Last year at one of our regular "How do we make these better" chats (we dont have any meetings around here) - Trev suggested we take a closer look at the new Fuji Torzite stripping guides - I have to admit to being a little sceptical, to date we'd been using a very good titanium stripping guide produced by Alps. They're top notch.....
