I live in Woodland so I just go down and get the blanks. Repeat customers, at times, get big discounts (60% off). I wanted to try a Suzuki blank but at $150 vs $50 for NFC, hard to do. I did get 2 matagi blanks from VooDoo rods because minimal shipping cost and they were the lightest blanks I could find. Finished rods were 1.1 and 1.2 oz.