I stripped an early 1970's era Fenwick 6-foot, 5-weight down to the blank and refinished, ending with several dips in spar varnish. The blank is beautiful
- - perfect in fact - - except that the tip section is noticeably lighter colored (raw sienna) than the butt section (light burnt sienna). Big deal? Who
knows? But, out of curiosity, is there anything that can be done to darken the tip section slightly to make it more compatible with the butt? I'm more
likely to undertake a fail-safe, low-tech solution than something drastic. Although right now I'm leaning towards doing nothing, even though the color
difference is quite obvious. Thanks.
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Sport
Posts: 21 (02/27/09 10:05:29) |
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Master Guide
Posts: 1056 (02/27/09 10:18:34) |
Well the purist wont like this, and I don't know about doing it on a whole rod section, but I have a huge pile of felt tip markers, mostly left over from
my kids, and often use em to help make thread repairs match, and have also used em when I have had to replace a few inches of a short tip with a different
piece of blank.
But personally, I have seen many Fenwicks with tip and butt that did not match, I would keep leaning towards doing nothing. Keith |
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Master Guide
Posts: 429 (02/27/09 12:19:56) |
You can add colorant to the spar varnish to give it a hue you like, good paint stores and woodworking stores will have these. I'd walk in with the blank
and talk to one of the more knowledgeable types.
You might find it easier to color both to the same hue rather than make one match the other. Good luck, I've never done it with a rod, but I've done it with antique furniture. Patience and don't hesitate to wipe it off and start over. Doing nothing sounds good to me.
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Master Guide
Posts: 15 (04/10/09 19:15:19) |
FF60 was two different mandrels, the early translucent Fenwicks were common to have a "shade" different from tip to butt section. Nothing wrong with
that! The vintage FF60 blank, I just built has that. They're nice little brook trout rods...
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Craig |
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Sport
Posts: 29 (04/12/09 17:24:10) |
One nice thing about working slow: I did nothing. Which sounds like what I should have done. Thanks for the insight.
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Master Guide
Posts: 1236 (04/14/09 19:43:38) |
my FF70 is the same. There was a recent thread about this but I cannot find it. THe rod fishes so nicely that I don't notice the color transparency
difference anymore. Leave it and fish the heck out of it.
Paul |
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