How I Made My Rod Tube for less than $100. It saves you about $400 

Thanks Noah

Dude! Those are all great suggestions. I'm gonna give them a try. Thanks

I think you missed the point, He said it was pricey. The point is, it durable and will last. Scrach resistant. If you can't afford it prolly shouldnt be fishing or buying this PVC kit.

Awesome. Congratulations

You're welcome

Thanks Nick

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How does bed liner hold up? Thinking about doing another one, the first we've used self adhesive vinyl (roll). Not very durable and a pain to use. Also tried paint and primer that claimed to adhere to PVC. Nope.

lol

Awesome job btw. decals make it legit.

No clue but if I had to guess I'd say less than 20 pounds

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Thanks Joe, I come by it naturally.

I'm using this video to help me build a rod holder for just that - airplane travel. I'll mount a handle mid-way on the holder too. I've checked with the airline (American). They said it won't be a problem to check it as luggage. I'm thinking it's comparable to skis. You might check with TSA before add a lock though.

Just to make it look like the 500 dollar one.

The average thief is an opportunist and wouldn't take the time to do that and probably wouldn't have to tools to do it either.

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Look at the Inception reel. It's only 120

Thanks man. I really appreciate that. I've got some thin foam sheets in my shop. I'll stick them in there.

Do a google search for TRC Covers. They are rod covers that protect the rods.

@@Flukemaster Easy to make too!

Any good sign shop can make stickers....

Shaun Moore rod socks are a mans best friend. If you can’t find any that fit the giant 9 footers, you can make felt rod socks with a sewing machine. Plus, you’ll impress your wife when you know how to work the machine.

Magic Mike it’s to deter thieves, if a thief wants something he will get it. Everything you do just makes it harder. Like locking your doors. A thief could easily break your window, making the lock useless.

It looks good and doesn’t flake off like other paints.

If you haven’t figured out yet, black pvc (ABS) will warp with exposure to direct sunlight. It is not recommended to use as a rod tube, risking damage to your rods.

Patton70 they make white flex seal also if you wanted white I bet he did it to make it more rugged

I'm pretty sure it's about 2 inches

2 inches will be perfect! 20 lbs is good as well. Thanks so much for the fast reply. I enjoyed your video so I subscribed. Thanks again.

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Put the stickers on and spray over them with clear flex seal.

Flukemaster duh lol thanks man

If you do it right, it doesn't look like your rods could be stolen if they are that locked inside.

because PVC is so hard to cut through...

If a thief would cut through a 6” pvc pipe on your truck I doubt he would do it just cause the stickers. Doesn’t mean something is in them at the moment. And also seems like the type of thief that would break your window and Hotwire your truck and leave. Probably faster and safer to steal the whole truck.

Heavydxd45 good question. Maybe he doesn’t have a bolt cutter. Saws are more common. And with that thing pvc any saw would do.

Live life; gotta sticker up my gear!

I can fit 4 spinning and 4 bait casting in mine.

I can't really get any of my spinning rods with the reels on them unless I remove the handles. :(

It will probably flex too much

Cricket cricket cricket... Good question! I was wondering the same.

I use the one that is made for a Hobie Pro Angler. It's white and shaped like a mustache. LOL

+Flukemaster haha yea I know what your talking about they do look kinda funny. I just got a rack like yours on my truck and was wondering what you used. thanks buddy!

Thanks John

That makes it long enough for the two 7'11" rods that I have and still room for a little foam in the front and back ends.

Ahhh gotcha... good idea on the foam as well. thanks!!

That would stick pretty high up out of the back of a truck.

+Guess Who I meant for use in a garage or inside the house.

Ahh i see. My bad!

I use KastKing Rod Racks. They are easier to take apart and pack up and they are very light weight.

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Just make sure it's clean

It turned a little gray but still good.

...plus all the advertising is a dead givaway as to its contents...I usually am very stelth about transporting/carring around expensive items. I never understood folks that have those infamous 'protected by 357 magnum' stickers on their vehicles...my buddy used to be one of them untill someone followed him home...then returned when he wasn't...and stole and handfull of nice firearms...or it could have been a home invasion. Plus if you live in a non carry state...when you leave your vehicle to go shopping etc...there is an encentive for a bad person to break into your vehicle because of you advertising your gun. Sorry for my cinical attitude but I have seen many nice folks get robbed because they like to brag or advertise their expensive items.

99 percent of thieves are opportunistic. If they can't get to it quickly they don't take the chance.

+Flukemaster ...oh I totally agree with you but a cordless drill would make it super easy/quick to unscrew those few end cap screws...i can remember when folks were getting their catalytic converters stolen for their platinum from their trucks......but thanks anyway for your money saving approach. It's always nice to save money so you can by more tungsten weights ;-)

They'd still have a hard time tearing that thing off with the silicon PVC glue that I used. But I see you're point. I may use Epoxy this time.

+Flukemaster ...that's an awesome idea actually...and perhaps use odd shaped screw heads(not the traditional Phillips for example)...then use lock tight on the nuts that secure those large U brackets on and problems solved! Great ideas!!! Thank you again for your time, effort and earnest love of the passion of fishing. It absolutely is demonstrated with every video you produce!!!

If it's got a roof rack with cross bars I'm sure it will work.

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Lol

@@Flukemaster I don't think that was meant to be funny. It seems like it would get pretty hot in there.

did you not listen to the video?

+Upstate Angler must have missed it. I'll watch again

The product he talks about on Amazon are the end caps

@@upstateangler9546 Ughhh video? What video...?

Well he uses them on a lot of his rods as well as the Inception and the Concept C sooooo........

***** no need to be rude.

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***** I own one and haven't really been able to fish it so I was asking some peoples opinions

I bought one too, although haven't used it either. I bought an inception and fished the hell out of it thought... That reel is insane, and for $120, just WOW! It is an AMAZING reel. I'm only going to expect more from the Concept A.

Coming soon.

+Flukemaster awesome

Different sprays all together... Plasti is ment to be removed and flex is more of a rhino liner type spray...

+Trey Harpel gotchya

+Edward Reilly I plasti my truck rims and it turned out GREAT, but I can peel it off at anytime...

+Trey Harpel yea man I did the badges on my truck it turned out pretty nice. surprised on how it has held up

+Edward Reilly same here...

It's pretty heavy

As long as it's

Oh sure that's fine! Just do it and then get back to us and tell us how you like using it...