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Gtw7983, That is impressive!

Yea I saw that deal but was Leary to buy 10 with 0 experience with them first. I think it ended on Sunday.

That is good to read. I was wanting to cast 14 oz. Thanks for input.

Excited to pull on it for sure. In the middle of moving to Lake Fork, so might be a little while on the report.

Will do., Thanks. XH 809.

Many thanks. Ordered 2 blanks.

Anyone have any reviews on these blanks for the mother size + baits? Are they durable? Was told by a guy that was told by a guy that was told by a guy they were fragile for tossing the bigger baits.

I agree with what has been said. I will say this, I’ve been building rods since 1998 using the acid wrap. At the time I was building a lot of G-Loomis GLX rods with conventional wrap. These blanks are very sensitive but also somewhat fragile and had several rods come back with the last 6 to 12 inches broken. After many conversations and theories I decided to try the acid wrap thinking that under load the blank was being torqued back and forth from the line going from one side of the guide ring to the other and was weakening the smallest and most fragile part of the blank. After going to acid wrap the breakage stopped, may have been coincidence but the theory that basically turning the end of the rod into a spinning style rod took away the leverage the guide feet had for twisting and torquing the blank in that area while blank is under heavy load made sense. At least it did to me and I’ve built and used nothing but acid wrap ever since. Also the case had been made to have the guides wrapping to the same side as reel handle which allows the rod to lay flat on the deck and not on the guides. FWIW.