Thanks. I have already repaired the St Croix rod. My original GLoomis rod will be a little more difficult. It was one of the first rods i made over 30 years ago. This will be the fourth time I have broken it. The first 3 times Gary Loomis still owned GLoomis rods and they all came with a life time warranty. All anyone had to do was scrape the guides off of it and send it to the factory and they would send a new blank to replace it with. As soon as Shimano bought out GLoomis their first change was to stop selling blanks to custom rod builders. It was the custom rod builder that made GLoomis rods famous to start with.