Rod Building 101: Finding the Blank's Spine

Here Todd demonstrates a simple technique for finding the rod blank's spine. The first and most important step in building a rod after selecting the proper blank is locating the spine. Think of it as if it were your back bone. You only want to bend in one direction, forward, well so does a rod blank. Every rod blank has a back bone (aka Spine); some are just more defined than others. If you are building a spinning rod, your guides will be located on the inside of the curve 180° to the spine and a casting rod on the outside of the curve on the spine. If you are building a multi-piece rod, you need to repeat this process for all sections.

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Sports

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• Custom
• Fishing
• Rod
• Building
• Spine
• Splining
• Blanks
• Howto
• DIY
• How-to