CHAPTER VII 



ONE-PIECE BAIT-CASTING RODS WITH SEPA- 

 RATE HANDGRASPS 



TO make a rod of the second class, in 

 which the handgrasp is to be single and 

 nine inches in length, the wood for the 

 tip, inclusive of the agate top, will be approxi- 

 mately 58^/2 inches long, as the ferrule center 

 on the large end of the tip will enter the hand- 

 grasp ferrule about i 1 /^ inches. These fer- 

 rules should be 15-32 of an inch in diameter 

 and of the type shown in Fig. 17. The large 

 end of tip is marked for a distance equal to 

 the small end of the center, and the wood care- 

 fully reduced with a file until it will enter the 

 center snugly to its very end, as illustrated in 

 Fig. 34. The center is then cemented on, and 

 the tip is ready for its rubbed coat of varnish 

 and the winding. Obviously this tip is to be 

 made of the same diameter as rods of the first 

 class described in a preceding chapter save 

 that it begins to taper at the ferrule. 



Rods of this class are not always made with 

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