In reply to Post #15
Yep, getting my stalker and baby mixed up, been looking at a lot of rods this am
Yep, getting my stalker and baby mixed up, been looking at a lot of rods this am
In reply to Post #12
Cut the butt, they get softer... No, just shorter. Doesn't change the action.
Cut the tip, they get stiffer... Yes.
Cut the butt, they get softer... No, just shorter. Doesn't change the action.
Cut the tip, they get stiffer... Yes.
In reply to Post #17
Shortened butt = stiffer butt.
Shortened butt = stiffer butt.
In reply to Post #18
The butt's are stiffer at the base.
You would only be cutting off the stiffer part, so it can't get any stiffer!
The butt's are stiffer at the base.
You would only be cutting off the stiffer part, so it can't get any stiffer!
In reply to Post #19
You would only be cutting off the stiffer part, so it can't get any stiffer!
Agree with that
Doesn't change the action
Butt not with that (geddit, very droll)
because you'd be moving the pivot point (the reel seat) further up the rod and possibly altering the spacing or changing the number of guides...jeffire would know for sure.
TBH though I'd like to see/feel the effect of chopping 3' of a 12' 2.5lb Acurix, it'd probably bend from reel hand to elbow, wouldn't go at all well with those metal Alps fittings
You would only be cutting off the stiffer part, so it can't get any stiffer!
Agree with that
Doesn't change the action
Butt not with that (geddit, very droll)
because you'd be moving the pivot point (the reel seat) further up the rod and possibly altering the spacing or changing the number of guides...jeffire would know for sure.TBH though I'd like to see/feel the effect of chopping 3' of a 12' 2.5lb Acurix, it'd probably bend from reel hand to elbow, wouldn't go at all well with those metal Alps fittings
In reply to Post #20
Just hold it further up and see
Just hold it further up and see
In reply to Post #19
So less of the rod is dyiff and more pf the tod is flexible. And raising the handle nearer the tip and further from the fulcrum. Think fly rod.
So less of the rod is dyiff and more pf the tod is flexible. And raising the handle nearer the tip and further from the fulcrum. Think fly rod.
In reply to Post #22
Goddammit phone.
Goddammit phone.
In reply to Post #21
Nope, but I enjoy the theorising
Edit
@ Paul, so Cartmen
Last nights experiment, 2 rods, 9&12', totally different test curves and 2 cans of Mandarins, I was sure they felt very similar in battle curve...I need to repeat that one, I felt very smug last night
Nope, but I enjoy the theorising
Edit
@ Paul, so Cartmen
Last nights experiment, 2 rods, 9&12', totally different test curves and 2 cans of Mandarins, I was sure they felt very similar in battle curve...I need to repeat that one, I felt very smug last night
In reply to Post #19
I've re-read what I'd posted in #18, I meant shorter butt-softer rod.
Doh. I've not even been drinking and I'm arguing against myself.
I've re-read what I'd posted in #18, I meant shorter butt-softer rod.
Doh. I've not even been drinking and I'm arguing against myself.
In reply to Post #25
it's the forum, it does that to folk 
it's the forum, it does that to folk
In reply to Post #25
If you cut 3ft off a 12ft rod (the butt end, just for Vossy) it would "feel" softer, yes, just because you've moved the fulcrum (pivot point), so easier to bend, but the action is still the same so the rod hasn't become softer.
If you cut 3ft off a 12ft rod (the butt end, just for Vossy) it would "feel" softer, yes, just because you've moved the fulcrum (pivot point), so easier to bend, but the action is still the same so the rod hasn't become softer.
In reply to Post #27
Depends what end you cut it from
Depends what end you cut it from