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Anybody have a good idea as to how to design/build an extension butt assembly? I'm making a Gillum 8'6" salmon rod that is begging for a 4-6" extension butt for repetitive sunk-fly work. I've seen simple screw-mounts, but also ferrule-like mounts. Guide me, O cane masters! What have you made with functional success??? (Joe West) I can help you but hard work is involved in my system. I made a third ferrule in that kind of rods and attach a cap when the extension butt is not required and a extension bamboo butt with cork when I need it. It works just like a ferrule. You have tried to make some BOBFS, about some months ago? (Marcelo Calviello) I prefer to not remove the butt. However, I think that you might do well to look into the Pac Bay seats. They have some very nice styles of removable fighting butts. They come in 2 or 5 inches. The seats are quite inexpensive, but they are very nice looking and functioning. If you like a small fixed butt, I like the Struble U9. For a longer fixed butt on my "switch rod" I am going to use a Pac Bay channel lock seat and rubberized cork for the butt. I will be turning the whole thing down on the lathe. Either way, I think aluminum is a good choice for big, foul weather rods like the Gillum. (Bob Maulucci)
I made a salmon rod! Oh S&*t....I need a fighting butt. Any suggestions? I can buy a reel seat and a butt to match or, as a wood turner, I can turn a butt (my preference). I would like a detachable butt. My problem is: how are they attached, what are the lengths, anything else I don't know? (Marv Loopstra) REC has a nice fighting butt attachment. (Scott Grady) On the rods that I have build, with a detachable fighting butt, the mount was a aluminum plug that was epoxied into the end of the reel seat. The inside of the plug was bored out to 1/4", and had a short, socket, about 1/4" deep, at the interior end, threaded 1/4'x20 (female), that accepted the threaded stub from the fighting butt. The exposed shaft from the fighting butt is 1" long, with a short section threaded 1/4x20 (male) at the end, and a water seal near the other end.
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