Rain 🌧 with rod restoration.....2/5/24

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Covered with flexcoat to get down to the original blank after you stripped the guides out. Use heat gun and lightly heat blank and scrape the blank keeping the board knife 🔪 at a 90?angle that will keep you from splintering the blank you can feel the smoothness of the original blank

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Lightly sand blank not to much or you will change the blank rating, also I'm going to paint my blank black with a Coat of flexcoat light before guide Wapping.
Since all my guides are all still good I will keep incase I pop a 💍 😇

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Going with a new rubber Finnish ring
But keep old cork.

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Or what ever you want to call it 😏

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After a light sanding, but not today because of rain.
My new looks

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I'm going to build up the back of the worn away cork or leave the taper look shrink tubing is your best friend

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I did a spline check and I'm bummed because the reel seat is alittle off from the factory all the more reason to custom wrap