Fiberglass Rod Making

This is a great book to get started with, it will give you all the basics that you need to complete your first few rod projects. I recommend reading this book first before you move on to his "Advanced Custom Rod Building"

Making your own rods is an enjoyable craft as well as a rewarding one. Fiberglass Rod Making takes out the guesswork, leaves in all the fun. In clear, well-organized text and hundreds of step-by-step photographs, it explains how to judge quality in a rod and how to experiment with the variables that can make a rod uniquely yours; where to get rod blanks and other components; how to plan and assemble the rod; how to apply ferrule and guide wraps ranging from the simplest no-frills types to intricate designs of real beauty; even how to maintain your rods and build cases for them.It is all here -- every concievable aspect of building fiberglasss rods from the lightest trout wand to the largest big-game trolling rod.