Fresh 864-4 Blanks. Hot Off the Sander…
Spent most of Friday at North Fork Composites doing CCS and flex-board testing of rod blanks, while paging through patterns and doing some mix-and-match. The goal was to get three specific sets of blanks: 905-4, 906-4 and 864-4 for one of North Fork’s European clients. Got quite close on 5 of the 6 total blanks, so will hopefully be testing refined versions of those next week.
Been great to be working with Brad Loomis on this project. His technical know-how and ability to build great rod blanks is exceptional. This project, among a couple others, has lead to some pretty slick efficiencies in patterning, ferruling and so forth. I’ve also gotten to play with some of the latest, greatest resin technology. These projects have been pretty intense in terms of getting all of the building tech up to speed, but it’s great seeing it come together.
So here’s to 12322-13′s future, as well a few other 123xx series blanks that will be making their way into stores and onto streams this year.
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Don’t let Paul Arden know you have been doing CCS; it seems to boil his blood:D
Andrew—Well, someone has to aggravate him…. ;-)
Hey, do you plan on getting out of the oven some 761-4 or maybe a 701-4?
Just wondering….
Simon—I suppose that it depends on what projects I end up working on. Right now, my time spent on rod design/testing is rather limited, so it I don’t know how much I’ll be doing going forward. For the time being, what work I am doing is focused on OEM and some North Fork-branded blanks (at least what I can handle with the time I have). There are no 1-weights on the list at this point, but who knows for the future?