Ok, let's speed things up a bit. Here is the completed 10 piece cookie that is going to be our rod butt. We have bored out the poker-chip side to the diameter of the butt of the blank but only 1/2" deep. The rubberized side of the cookie still has the original hole. We need this hole in order to attach the rod to the lathe; this will be plugged when the handle is complete.
Before we epoxy the butt-cookie (that just sounds wrong) to the blank we need to find the spine of the rod. This is done by rolling the blank between your palms, under slight pressure. We are trying to detect at what part of the axis the rod resist bending. This is the spine, and this is where I position the reel seat and guides for a casting rod.
Ok, so maybe this post should have been part 2.5.
