5pc Travel spin rod

[Steeldrifter 0]

Travel 5pc light/med spin rod with Microwave guide system just done up and out of the shop.

 

[cphubert 0]

Very useful a little more blue and I could see Mike looking at on of those with all his traveling. What is the performance like on a five piece casting and flex ?

[mikechell 0]

That's a pretty one.  

[skeet3t 0]

Nice. With the Microwave guides, you can cook dinner after you fish. 🤣

[Poopdeck 0]

There's a lot to like about this rod. I love the wood reel seat, I really like how the cork turned out especially the darker butt, the green blank color, it's a spinning rod, the small aluminum tube and I want to try microwave guides. Nice job. 

[Steeldrifter 0]

On 4/14/2021 at 5:28 PM, cphubert said:

What is the performance like on a five piece casting and flex ?

Pretty much the same as with any normal 2pc rod. Years ago the more sections meant a stiffer/flatter feeling rod, but with the modern day technology multipiece rods feel pretty much the same as any others now.

[Steeldrifter 0]

On 4/16/2021 at 7:33 AM, Poopdeck said:

and I want to try microwave guides.

If you ever get a chance to cast one that has them Greg make sure you try it out. I always thought the microwave system was justanother gimmick when it came out years ago, but after I cast one I was shocked. It really does work just as they claim. Much straighter path for the line (no coils going through the rod guides) so you get around 10% longer casts and better accuracy.

[MuskyFlyGuy 0]

+1 to this

My wife and I had Steve put the microwave system on each of the spinning rods he built for us.  We have very strong and positive comments about both the rods and the system. 

[dave 0]

What are microwave guides?  Is that the same as the "staggered guides"?  What is the advantage over regular guide placement?

[Steeldrifter 0]

It's not really just about placement, it's about taming the coils right from the very first guide, and then into the 2nd tamer guides. This link can explain it probably a lot better than I could https://www.americantackle.us/microwave-guides

 

[dave 0]

Thanks Steve.  I'm sending you a PM.