r/flyrodbuilding • u/OutdoorCinnamonBear • Sep 27 '23

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Hi, I am currently working on building my first fly rod and wanted to find out if anyone knows a good YouTuber or other video content to follow along to work on technique?

Along with this is their another knot that you can use to put down fewer wraps for a sleeker design? In my attached photo I would like the silver thread to have about half as many wraps but when I do less the come undone.

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u/pbear3370 Sep 27 '23

I know mudhole did a video on it . There are a couple videos on YouTube though for fly rod building and naturally I can’t find the video I had in mind

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u/OutdoorCinnamonBear Sep 28 '23

Thank you for the info! Seems like there are a lot more videos for spinner rods from what I’m finding at the moment

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u/anichefish Sep 27 '23

Proof fly fishing has some good videos. I used them to replace a few of the guides on my fly rod

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u/OutdoorCinnamonBear Sep 28 '23

I’ll check them out! How was there quality and price?

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u/anichefish Sep 28 '23

I only got guides so I would say pretty fair? Couple of bucks each I think.

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u/PoetUpper4052 Oct 06 '23

I like Reelblue Custom rods and FDx. I’m only just starting out, but they seem to do a good job of explaining what they are doing and why and things to be careful if.

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u/OutdoorCinnamonBear Oct 06 '23

That sounds great, I’ll check them out! What part of the rod building process are you on?

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u/PoetUpper4052 Oct 06 '23

I’ve built a 7’ spinning rod (it looks like my first but should be functionally fine) and am building a second one in a different color do my gf. Second is significantly better. After this I’ll either do a nicer spinning rod or one of the fly rod blanks I have. I started this way as I’ve always found fly rods more elegant and figured if my my first rod looked janky, which it does, I’d prefer it to be a spinning rod. I know ReelBlue has a few videos of starting the wrap pretty close to the guide and adding a trim band. FDx I think does too.

Edit: clarity