Rod building 201 - Five Wishes - Part 1

[@pauleyedwin6056]

New builder here. When measuring for trigger length do we leave about one inch of clearance when bending elbow? Thanks.

[@fdxcustomrods]

It's more of a personal preference and technique driven. I have rods with 9 to 13 inch triggers. Shorter ones for jerk bait and topwater, mid for geneal use and longer for flipping and big swim baits.

[@JJ-yw8zn]

Love your video’s! Learning a lot and will start my first build soon. Question about How to find the spine on the bottom part? That one seems to be quite tricky with a stiff blank🤔. The top part wasn’t too hard for me but the bottom part difficult to put a proper bend into it. Or is it only important for the top part?

[@fdxcustomrods]

Only the top matters, but great question, keep em coming.

[@darrensnell7556]

Can you please tell me where you get your grips from cheers

[@fdxcustomrods]

The tan ones are Wynn Grips which are available in a lot of places. I usually get mine from voodoorods.com or mudhole.com

[@TokyoJim618]

Northfork Composite 6406 you say? I can't find that on their site.

[@fdxcustomrods]

Sorry, I was using builder speak..🤣 Under the x-ray section it's listed as a SJ 703-1 (x-ray LMX)