Name: Restoring a Piece of the Fishing Past
Uploaded: 2023-09-11T17:00:00+00:00
Duration: 25 min 50 s
Description: The Redneck Preppy had no intention of embarking down the path of restoring a fishing rod...and then he found himself with a pile of supplies and a razor blade cutting off its line guides. In today's

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The Redneck Preppy had no intention of embarking down the path of restoring a fishing rod...and then he found himself with a pile of supplies and a razor blade cutting off its line guides. In today's video -- really more of a slide show than anything -- he goes over his efforts and whether it was all worth fixing up a 1960s Canadian Tire fishing rod that belonged to his grandfather.

0:12 Introduction
1:59 Cleaning the Cork Handle
3:03 Cutting Off Line Guides
4:41 Wrapping New Line Guides
6:17 Fixing the Cork Handle
8:13 The Wrong Way to Fix Paint on a Rod
9:50 Epoxying the Line Guides
11:40 Back to Working on the Rod Blank
14:33 Sanding and Repainting the Rod Seat
15:21 Repainting the Rod
16:37 The Rod Butt
17:08 Screwing Up Clear Coat
18:49 A Second Coat of Paint on the Rod
19:47 Doing Clear Coat Right
20:05 The Final Result
20:33 How Much Did This Cost?
22:15 Why Did I Do This?
22:44 Judging My Work