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Point Blank Enters Gen 2 with Katana and More



Introduction: As I sit down to write this article, a look at the archives reveals it's been roughly five years since I began my rod building hobby. While I'm sad to report my skills haven't gotten much better, I can easily say my level of frustration has grown. Goals. Then why do I continue? Guess I'm just a glutton for punishment, but I do get a certain level of gratification fishing a rod I assembled.

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With the price of everything going up a custom build makes more sense than ever in my opinion and
Having a point blank build once, I would be willing to try the katana blank maybe.

Being how the new and previous heavy powered rods are different, I wonder if they did the same with the 7'0 and 7'3 medium heavy. My 7'0 medium heavy on the previous iteration fishes more like a medium plus at best. Thanks for the article, I found it quite helpful.

That was a fun read, as another hobbyist rod builder. I just started on my first bass / warm water rod recently, on a $40 closeout blank. Used Alconite guides and a fairly pedestrian American Tackle split grip reel seat, since I figured I'd make a few newbie mistakes along the way.

Like you I noted that Matagi makes some nice winding checks and other trim parts. I have become accustomed to low profile metal winding checks when building fly rods, so using those cheap ugly rubber or vinyl checks just seems wrong.

I was especially intrigued by the description of silk wraps. Have to give those a try sometime.

Sat down and watched this video on wrapping silk -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31NsM5dzGVw

Now I'm really psyched