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Don't start out doing closed patterns and work up to them, start with the simple open patterns, get a feel for it.

It will be durable, but not as light or powerful as a like weight tubular blank.

Use Pac bay Minima guides, with or without rings, your choice. 4 mm guides are light and stand a considerable distance from the blank so you should have no line sticking problems, at least I haven't...

On mine about 1/4 ounce lighter, cork is way lighter than a solid chunk of nylon and it's worlds more comfortable to fish. Think about it would you build a reel seat as you discribe and put on a...

Billy Vivona wrote an easy to understand book, last I looked it was still being sold at Mudhole and other rodbuilding websites. Been out 10+ years so it may be found used also. Think my copy was $30....

Spar varnish was the finish of choice back then. I wouldn't put anything on it, it won't need it.

You're looking at things from a negative perspective I think, right on the video they say they used a stiff fluorocarbon line, 8 llb test, to maximize any problems they may have while filming and...

The video is on youtube, the Angler's Resource/Fuji site and a bunch of other places, Fuji site explains the KR system, how can you use the system, the guides without knowing anything about it?
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Did you watch the Fuji video, what were they using again? Yes, you will be fine. Check the video before you build, info is your friend.

Nice build, next time micro guides in stainless will be lighter and close to only a buck a piece.

You could install a Skamania style grip, short rear grip, long foregrip, this allows the reel to counterbalance the rod's tip weight, balance with no additional weight. Used on steelhead rods and...

A 12 ft. light and balanced rod can't be done, I've been fishing 13 ft rods for decades, I'm 70 and have no problem holding on to them all day catching steelhead. You can get "lighter and better...

When you are throwing such a small offering, my take is you need to maximize that aspect, it's already a light, sensitive rod by definition, it's lack of mass guarantees that, if you were throwing a...

Grip length should be the same no matter what type grip you install.

Skeetbum,
Check out the Pac Bay titanium Minimas, all the bennies with out the costs. Don't know what else wouldn't hold up in the salt.

There is no reason a longer rod has to be noodly. The problem becomes no matter how long you make a rod you can't overcome line drag off the reel and guides, lure aerodynamics, etc. You sooner , or...

I fish 20 lb braid regularly with 2 mm guides on my lighter powered steelhead rods to 13 ft long. Complaining about a 9 ft rods balance and how fatigued makes me shake my head with wonder. Fished 8...

If the tip top I use is 1/3 lighter, and the guides I use feel 48 times lighter for the first guide, 45 for the second guide, 42 for the third guide, etc. from the tip how can anyone say guide size...

We have no idea what you wanted and what you bought, a high end rod could easily cost that much. Does that include all the infrastructure needed to build the rod also, or just the components? If so...

Instead of adding weight, why don't you just do what the fly anglers and salmon/steelhead anglers do, grab the rod after casting in front of the reel and use it as your counterweight, no extra...