Shorten my rod

[tjm]

SC blanks are available from their factory in Mexico; https://rodgeeks.com/pages/about-us  the Carbon 2 is the SC II and the Carbon 4 is the SC IV the US made SC V is sold from there after painting, I think

[fishinwrench]

They pulled a bit of a shinanigan with the SCIV rods awhile back, started replacing them with that POS Imperial blank, which was even slower than the Avid (SCIII) basically the same action and recovery rate as SCII but a bit lighter.  

The whole rod blank market is quite a racket.....you really have to study, weigh, measure, and shake, to try and figure it all out.  It's only magical in the amount of confusion PURPOSELY applied to it.

When a rod manufacturer assumes that I don't know a truly good blank when I feel one.....I get kinda insulted.

Lew's, Duckett, and several others need to be exposed.  Low end ABU Garcia and Berkeley rods from Wal-Mart have higher quality blanks than alot of these high-end rods guys are hurting their bank accounts with these days.

[snagged in outlet 3]

17 minutes ago, fishinwrench said:

They pulled a bit of a shinanigan with the SCIV rods awhile back, started replacing them with that POS Imperial blank, which was even slower than the Avid (SCIII) basically the same action and recovery rate as SCII but a bit lighter.  

The whole rod blank market is quite a racket.....you really have to study, weigh, measure, and shake, to try and figure it all out.  It's only magical in the amount of confusion PURPOSELY applied to it.

When a rod manufacturer assumes that I don't know a truly good blank when I feel one.....I get kinda insulted.

Lew's, Duckett, and several others need to be exposed.  Low end ABU Garcia and Berkeley rods from Wal-Mart have higher quality blanks than alot of these high-end rods guys are hurting their bank accounts with these days.

The other bummer is they don't have Demo Day's like golf where you can hit the clubs outside.  would be nice to try a rod with a reel, line and lure on it before you buy it.  That's why my buddies and I all the same rods from trying each others.

[MOPanfisher]

I am afraid I would break something trying to get the reel seat and stuff off of an old rod.  My only chance would be to get it all off and put on a Tennessee type handle.

[drew03cmc]

Well, I'll try to use my current rods for the techniques I'm thinking of and see how they feel. It's all fun anyway!