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A wooden butt cap on one of my reel seats has chipped and has me thinking about alternatives. I'd really like to stay with wood as opposed to going to nickel silver and thought I might try impregnating the wood with wood hardener or Plexiglas to toughen things up a bit. I realize the issue here is really the thinness and brittleness of the material but was wondering if anyone stabilizes their wood with wood hardener or Plexiglas and if so, haven't you found that this adds to the toughness of the material? (Jim Lowe) If you can stand the smell of Super Glue, that is what I have used in the past. I have gone to Wood Hardener now and it does add toughness the wood. It darkens the wood somewhere Super glue will not. (Tony Spezio) Personally, I think a nice metal butt cap is strongly to be preferred to a piece of wood soaked in plastic, but I have an alternative suggestion for you guys. I have a really old Malloch greenheart salmon rod with a stag horn butt. (David Zincavage) Is there any reason you can think of that would prevent someone from using a stabilizer and then finishing with Super Glue? As many others have noted and posted, the CA glue (Super Glue) makes a dandy finish for reel seat fillers. Ron Hossack, for example, has pictures of fillers and pens he has done this way (CA finish; dunno about stabilizers), and the results are exquisite. (Steve Yasgur) There's a product called GitRot used in boats - it's epoxy very very thin and actually wicks up into the capillaries of wood - once hardened WOW .... (John Silviera)
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