15 Week Online Rod Building Course (With a Free Rainshadow Blank)

15-Week Online Rod Building Course (Live via Zoom)
Join from anywhere in the world!

Learn the complete art of rod building in this live, 15-week course featuring expert guest speakers from the industry.

Do not buy any rodbuilding products, tools, equipment, supplies, blanks or components upfront — wait til after the 2nd or 3rd class.

Each student receives a free rod blank (chosen during week 3). Save your money and wait until class starts before purchasing supplies or anything at all.  You get up to 40% off MSRP though vaguerods.net

What You'll Learn in This 15-Week Course:

Build your own rods with live, step-by-step instruction — or just watch and learn.

Topics include:

• Choosing blanks & components for specific fishing styles

• Putting components and blanks together

• Power & action deflection

• Rod building terminology 

• Learn the  materials of blanks and components

• Learn how to read cross wrap patterns 

• 3 rod designs + basic marbling

•  Guide repair

• Refurbishing old rods

• Decorative end wraps  

• Acid (spiral) wraps & traditional guide trains
  

• Custom grip design

Zoom link sent a couple days to a week before class starts.
Note: This class is non-refundable.