Reel seat repair

[fishinwrench]

Speaking of design interruptus.... It's been long enough that if I was ever going to warm up to and accept Split Grip rod design it would have happened by now.    Absolutely cannot stand it.  

Everyone else must love it though because it's actually hard to find a rod that isn't built that way.  

[tjm]

look to me like the two go together skeleton grip and skeleton reel seats; almost every example of exposed rod reel seat I was able to find also had the goofus handles. Not only that I finely found out what the selling point of exposed rod handles and exposed rod reel seats, both apparently are done to increase "sensitivity" ; as one guy put it

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It is very important to have an exposed blank under the reel seat while trolling herring for salmon. Many people get have a tough time telling when they got a bite.

You know how it is-It may be a bite.....or- maybe a Chevrolet fell off a bridge and landed on your leader It's just tough to tell the difference........

A reel with a clicker also helps indicate a bite is occuring (For those of us too dumb to figure things out without the help of an exposed rod blank).

As it turns out I may have seen one of those expose reel seats and not been aware of it, I have looked at many split butt rods and asked a lot of salesmen what was the reason for the missing part, best and most frequent answer has  been "It looks so cool".

And having seen several example pictures, I now understand the need for a close fit on that type seat. I won't ever use one but I did learn something today.

[Gavin]

Could probably drill and inject some thinned epoxy with a large gauge hypodermic needle. Should hold just fine but I’d send it back. Can’t stand the build quality on most factory rods. Wrap my own mostly, Tom Hargrove does my graphite fly rods. I prefer the full dress, in away colors.

[timinmo]

I can't believe this is on the third page.  Yes there are some youtube videos of drilling and adding epoxy and you can probably do that.  Yes you can fit a handle from the rear/butt of the rod. Is it the best way?  No.  The taper, or increase in diameter is not that great and unless you point it out to someone they will never know you did it.  I have replaced several handles where the handle was damaged or a person wanted a different handle, but did not want to take off and re-wrap all the guides.

It ain't a perfect world.

My take on split grips is that several years ago there was a series of forest fires in Portugal where to my knowledge most cork comes from.  This increased the cost of cork greatly, hence rod manufacturers could save some money by building split grips.  Good, not great, cork costs a rod builder over a dollar for a 1/2" ring.  Obviously a large manufacturer would pay much less. So split grips became common, then they became popular.  I really think that is why we see so many EVA grips.  So rod manufacturers could save money and make something popular.  Win, Win. 

That's my story and I'm stickin' to it. 

[fishinwrench]

11 minutes ago, timinmo said:

 

It ain't a perfect world.

The hell it isn't.   

We fuss over .002" line diameter differences, 

line that isn't limp enough,

reels that have a 1/3 less spool revolution per handle turn,

hooks that come on 18.00 jerkbait aren't good enough, 

and those split rings!  OMG!

Boats that only run 60mph are too slow.

But you're gonna snug that 278.00 reel on a rod that's built like a lampshade from Dollar General ?

GTFOH ! 😂