Any interest in one of my hobbies?

[Mr. Smallfish]

Started building rods several months ago.  I have done 8 now.  I wish you luck.  Going to be a tough way to make money.  Maybe enough to pay for new equipment.  One guy snaps a rod and you lose the profit from several rods building them a new one.  Might throw in some guide repairing service for some working capital.

[Gumboot]

1 hour ago, Mr. Smallfish said:

Started building rods several months ago.  I have done 8 now.  I wish you luck.  Going to be a tough way to make money.  Maybe enough to pay for new equipment.  One guy snaps a rod and you lose the profit from several rods building them a new one.  Might throw in some guide repairing service for some working capital.

He's not doing it for the $$$.  Look at his original post.

That being said...If I broke a custom built rod, don't think I'd feel right asking for a refund or new rod from a local rod builder.

[Gavin]

Rewrapping a custom rod should not be free. My custom guy (Tom Hargrove) charges for it, plus costs. Not a big deal on a fly rod since your usually just wrapping one section out of 4. I usually order an extra fly rod tip from the manufacturer when I send  a fly rod back for a blank warranty. I wrap my own spinners and casters...The guides get scraped and they into the tomato stake pile when I break one of those...I keep lousy records on that stuff and lose the ugly decals..