FTU Rod Builders Day

Kevin Graybeal · Veteran Member

FTU Rod Builders Day

MaryLouVandeRiet · Senior Member

Sure sorry that I missed it...but I had family issues to contend with ...

MaryLou~~

Pat Helton · Senior Member

I wish I could have been there. I really missed seeing all of my friends and their great rods. Hopefully I can make the next one. There is so much going on with our club and RFS. The training that Terry has set up and is mostly doing is terrific. I am going to try to be more helpful to him. Doug and Trey are really stepping up to help me with RFS. Terry G has overhalled our website and gotten it looking good. Our membership is skyrocketing. I am glad to see alot of younger more energetic people coming onboard. We need to work on getting more females involved in rodbuilding, they are naturally more artistic and detail oriented.
I would also like to thank Danny and all of the FTU staff for allowing us to participate with them and allow us to take over their conference room on a regular basis. Thanks Danny for hiring Terry, now I know where to find him. LOL
I know you all had a great time yesterday.
Pat

Terry Goode · Guru

YES, i also enjoyed Yesterday , got to talk to old and "new" friends, learned a bunch about rod manufacturing (if i could only remember half of it).

Scrim sounds like something that should be off of a fish and IM-8 sounds like i am a kid of eight years old - any way i digress .

thanks Terry J and FTU and the guys that came out to do a show and tell .

now i guess i gata get back to working on my rod.

Raymond Adams · Senior Member

Hopefully I can make it down sometime. Sounds like a truely fine event.

Rusty Byrley · Senior Member

I too had a great time meeting new people and I'm glad that there was no test on who they all were by the end of the day.
Thankyou Jerry Poindexter for your tips on weaving and I enjoyed talking to you.
Terry Jones, if your interested I can send you 3oz or so of HOK Marbelizer to play with. A friend gave me a quart and a qt. goes a long way in rod building. 6cc goes along way in rod building. The black or black pearl I basecoat with is acrylic (Createx to be exact). Then the marbelizer. It usually dries to the touch in5 minutes or less. Then I use a Bulldog Adhesion Promotor then a Valspar Clearcoat which is water white clear. Its really a simple process and is extremely durable. The adhesion Promotor is for rubber bumpers and plastics and things like that. It allows for movement of any kind w/o cracking. It comes in a large aresol can and lasts a long time. My first can is over 2 years old and I've still got over 90% left.
Thanks for all who did presentations and to Danny for letting us use his meeting room. I too learned about rod blank construction, much I did not know

Jerry Poindexter · Senior Member

I had a great time, too! It was really nice to finally get to meet alot of folks that I had only known on the 'net. I enjoyed the seminars, as well as visiting w/ the vendors. Doug Williams gave me sweet supply of Texas quarters...BIG thanks, Doug!
Jerry

Kyle Jud · Senior Member

Very sorry I missed this one! I was committed to fishing a tournament and went to fish the brown waters of Mansfield instead... I'm looking forward to the next one...