Customising solar stainless

[luke]

I know Luke, but admitting theres a problem is the first step to being cured[/quote]

oh good, at least theres light at the end of the tunnel

[Terminator]

i wouldnt be fishing with folded reel handles just close enough to be safe.
i wouldn't have a problem with rods clashing as they wont be 'that' close.
Im only talking 4 inch back buzzer and 5 front, hardly touching is it.

Finbar what do you mean my posts are amateurish? Do I have to post with a certain degree of qualifications or do i need to be paid to post in order to post 'proffesionally'???

At the end of the day it is each to their own and as long as fish care in no. 1 priority it should concern no one else.

I wouldn't 'T the P' out of you for enquiring about a certain item of tackle if I didn't like it or find it appealing.

Please get off my back Finbar as I have never done anything to upset you and dont appreciate the hassle I am receiving

P.s I am doing them myself upon receiving some advice on the best way to do it

[Woody123]

Terminator, I have had solar stainless for the last 15 or so years and the original Sod Pod was actually quite soft......they don't use 316 stainless or anything like that, I have cut and threaded the legs of my sod pod using simple hand tools, don't think that you will have a problem as long as you measure twice and cut once as they say!....go for it.....the worse that can happen is that you make a mess of it and then have to re-buy it......the best that can happen is that you end up doing the job correctly and get a lot of satisfaction......actually I have contacted Solar in the past when I needed some real small screws that had broken on the Sod pod and the guy I spoke to was extremly helpfull and sent the parts no charge!

[Callum91]

Originally Posted by luke

ive got shortened matrix stainless got the stainless steel engineers at work to cut a section out of the middle and reweld them , want them shorter now ive got ss3000's tho, oh and before you say anything finbar, yes i am a tart

haha, im getting tournies soon thats why i want mine shorter.. how much did you get it done for?

Originally Posted by Terminator

i wouldnt be fishing with folded reel handles just close enough to be safe.
i wouldn't have a problem with rods clashing as they wont be 'that' close.
Im only talking 4 inch back buzzer and 5 front, hardly touching is it.

Finbar what do you mean my posts are amateurish? Do I have to post with a certain degree of qualifications or do i need to be paid to post in order to post 'proffesionally'???

At the end of the day it is each to their own and as long as fish care in no. 1 priority it should concern no one else.

I wouldn't 'T the P' out of you for enquiring about a certain item of tackle if I didn't like it or find it appealing.

Please get off my back Finbar as I have never done anything to upset you and dont appreciate the hassle I am receiving

P.s I am doing them myself upon receiving some advice on the best way to do it

For me 5" at the front and only 4" at the back is far too close. You say you now have 'Techs' Well with only 4" at the rear the handle of the right hand reel will certainly foul the body of the reel on the left and that 'could' cause a problem.
Its all well and good saying it wont foul if you get a take but who can say at 2am in the rain when the buzzer is screaming that they make a conscious effort to adhere to the 'run' checklist. If i'm anything to go by you just grab the rod and up it comes. If your rods are very close, as yours will most certainly be, you increase the chance of fouling the rod next to it by a percentage, thats a fact just because the distance between is less...
I'm not getting on your back at all mate, sometimes people need telling that they are doing something in a way that could be done so much better and this is one of them. It isnt just you this applys to its everyone who has rods far too close or reel handles folded. Its a silly thing to do at best and a potentially dangerous one at the worst, not to mention very vain. I mean look at Callum, he's actually prepared to spend money on getting his rear buzzbar made narrower by an inch! Thats just crazy when there are far better things to waste money on, like hair gel, or blonde highlights....or even dare I say it, bait...
I'm not taking the pish and i'm not on your back. Its just a little constructive criticism. Think about what is the best, safest option. Your rods 4-5 inches apart or rods 10-12 inches apart? Theres only one answer mate thats a fact, theres no argument for having rods so close other than the way it looks and I for one think doing it for the way it looks is just silly...

[Callum91]

just to clear things up.. i would never have my reels that close they clashed thats for sure

[Blue]

Originally Posted by Finbar

I mean look at Callum, he's actually prepared to spend money on getting his rear buzzbar made narrower by an inch! ...

... I thought size doesn't matter! What sort of example are we setting if one of our members is getting his 'rear' reduced by an inch!.... Well I say...

[kevw]

When I fished a 2 rod water with tight swims I found banksticks the better option placed as far apart as possible rather than buzz bars in the middle, was easier to play and land the fish from the middle of the swim that way.

[Stig]

Fishing has been around for many many years and at no time in the past was it ever a fashion parade .

It is only with the comming of the youth of today that it has become a peeing competition as to who has the most expensive gear and whos gear looks best on the bank and the only people who could care less about your gear is you and possibly the gang of chavs who are going to take it off you . I have stainless banksticks and buzz bars no name on them and they are probably 15 inch ones but do you think for 1 minute Mr Carp cares one little bit that my sticks and bars are not solar or even bothers to stick his head out of the water to have a look .

If you shorten your bars how are you going to look good as your big pit reels will be bashing into each other or not even be able to put 2 rods with big pits on your bars or are you going to use smaller reels and run the risk of getting kicked out of the :

"All the gear no idea club "

bank sticks ,buzz bars rod pods assist you in putting fish on the bank but having all the poshest most expensive gear will not make up for years of watercraft learnt by getting out there and fishing with whatever tackle you can afford .

Callum come back and talk about buying all the best most expensive gear when your home address is your own and not that of mummy and/or daddy where you pay the rent/mortgage , gas electric,council tax,water rates ,television licence ,house insurance ,car insurance ,road tax , dentsist fees , clothe yourself and after all that feed yourself & god help you should a woman come along to spend more of your hard earned .Lets see how keen you are to buy up all the latest most expensive gear when you can no longer make regular withdrawals from the bank of mum & dad.

When you grope about in your pocket and find a rolled up fiver and think to youself :
"Thats a bonus i can go down the pub for the last half hour and have a pint possibly 2 "

Then you hear teddy bears picnic playing out in the street and you kids shout .

" Dad can we have an icecream "

Then the moral dilemma hits your brain is it the last hour at the pub or buy your kids a 99 cornet with a flake and if you are any kind of man it will be cold treats for the kid/kids and a mug of tea in the kitchen instead of last half hours and last orders .

I know you are at college and you probably have a summer job but its reality check time summer is near enough over .

Dream about all the top of the range stuff after you have had all yout fishing gear nicked and its not insured and it is a pair of solar banksticks and buzz bars or shoes for the kids but you could buy aluminium bank sticks and buuz bars and still get the shoes . If you would forgo the shoes you are no man and if you would forgo the aluminium sticks and bars just because you wouldnt look trendy on the bank you are no angler .

Its all to easy to post what you have and how good your gear is while you are living at home coughing up 20-30 quid a week or less in a lot of cases and still getting expensive birthday and Xmas gifts of parents and grandparents .

When you have made your own way in this world and are paying all those previously mentioned bills + putting food on the table ofr both your family and yourself if after paying out all that you can still be a tackle tart & buy the most expensive gear without running into debt i will take my hat off to you and buy you a pint (one of those i missed because of icecream )


(most expensive does not mean it is the best )

[Blue]

Bloody 'ell Stig, that'll tell him.......

[Terminator]

Originally Posted by Stig

When you have made your own way in this world and are paying all those previously mentioned bills + putting food on the table ofr both your family and yourself if after paying out all that you can still be a tackle tart & buy the most expensive gear without running into debt i will take my hat off to you and buy you a pint (one of those i missed because of icecream )

was that aimed at callum??

if not when you getting me this pint!!
as I pay all the above and more

[Woody123]

seems to me that the original question was "I have just bought some solar buzz bars and would like em shorter does anyone know anyone that will cutt them down for me or of a way i could do it myself"..............now all of a sudden the poor lad is getting lectured on the meaning of life etc etc........personally I tend not to judge other people by my own standards........if thats what he wants to do and it makes him happy......then why not.........soon enough he will be burdened down with responsibilities/mortgage/kids/etc.......let him play whilst he he is still young enough to enjoy playing....personally I like my rods/reels not touching.....but far be it for me to try to impose my will on somebody else......there is a name for that....it's called fascism..... it sounds to me Stig that life has dealt you a couple of blows....I am sorry for you if that is the case....but that is no reason to vent your spleen on some young lad.....I seem to remember that I was like that when I was younger (in fact I'm still like that now!).....so this answer to his original query is......have a go yourself and you may get a great deal of satisfaction......alternatively you may see that its best left to the experts......life's like that...you got to learn and pay your dues.
I'm not having a go at anyone in this reply......if you are offended I'm sorry.......just think that the spirit of this forum is maybe a little lost when we start telling people how to live.

[Terminator]

I think I am being confused with callum here

i was the inital poster?
i have 2 children and a mortgage and I run my own business??

God I wish i never asked?

[richk]

Originally Posted by carpking44

I had shortened Matrix bars last year,but got fed up of the folded handle thing,gone back to standard(short)bars after risking lost fish fumbling with reels...bewere!!

My thoughts exactly!

[Woody123]

Apologies terminator....got confused because of all the waffle that followed your original question.....so you are one of us then?....married kids and all that goes with it!
Have a go at the stainless yourself, get some taps and dyes and it's quite easy......think that if it was Matrix then you would have a problem, that I think is 316 stainless which is hard to work.....failing that speak with the guys at solar....they are very helpfull.........Good Luck