Shipping rods

[impdog]

whats the best way to ship rods in a cardboard rod tube in your opinion? thanks

[deathb4disco]

Wrap them very well with bubble wrap.



On some rods with a very delicate tip, I have taped a 2-3' section of pool noodle around the tip of the rod. It worked great.

[Cray]

Get a piece of pool noodle and cut a couple of pieces to fit the ends also. Save the tips.

[bfish]

I like thin walled pvc tubing (drain pipe). Wrap blank in plastic picnic table cloth, use a 6 inch section of either bubble wrap or pool noodle every 3 ft and at the ends.

[wannabe fisherman]

go to a carpet store and get a tube that carpet comes on cut it just a little longer than rod wrap a little bubble wrap around rod then put some in each end of tube cut cardboard to fit ends and tape up well. I've sent several rods this way and they all arrived un-harmed and all I paid for was the postage and ins. Carpet tubes WON'T bend like those mailing tubes will.

[Blackhawk19]

go to a carpet store and get a tube that carpet comes on cut it just a little longer than rod wrap a little bubble wrap around rod then put some in each end of tube cut cardboard to fit ends and tape up well. I've sent several rods this way and they all arrived un-harmed and all I paid for was the postage and ins. Carpet tubes WON'T bend like those mailing tubes will.

I ship mine the same way, works great!

[wicklundrh]

I ship custom rods all over the U.S.
MOST of the rods I build, come to me in a tube so I reuse them. In the event I don't have a tube, the carpet tubes are the best thing going. When I complete a rod, I put the top and bottom sections in a plastic sleeve (usually the one that came with the rod blank). I take shipping foam and wrap the top and bottom of the rod to the diameter of the tube. This way, the rod cannot slide up or down or back and forth. It holds the rod centered within the tube. This is the safest way to ship one as it will not slide around or shake back and forth.

[impdog]

thanks for the help!

[Rees Guide]

PVC ships much cheaper and does the job well, can by the pipe and ship them cheaper than you can just pay the shipping with them in a cardboard tube.