Rod Building & Repairs In Manchester

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Situated in Stretford, Manchester, repairs, breaks, custom rod builds and refurbs, all done to a professional standard. Please call or text to arrange a day to drop work off with me, I work from home. Ex Trafford Angling customers may know me as ' Dave ' ;)

Payments by cash, or PayPal. Whether it's a Free Spirit or your old split cane rod that you can't bear to part with, a pole section that's

got stuck in a match, or a tip ring you've trod on . . . . . Custom Rod Building, Rod repairs, Tip Rings, Refurb's and more. Quality components fitted professionally by a Manchester based rod builder with over 20 years experience. I fix and service all types of reels for carp, coarse and sea fishing, you will not get a more thorough strip clean and inspection anywhere, guaranteed. I can service all the older Daiwa and Shimano reels that they no longer accept. I spend an average 45 mins to an hour on a service and post photos and examples to show you what you get for your money, does your usual reel servicing place do that ?

Full top to bottom restoration of a very vintage Milbro Solglass spinning rod originally made in Scotland and probably a...
24/08/2026

Full top to bottom restoration of a very vintage Milbro Solglass spinning rod originally made in Scotland and probably around the 60's or 70's time period. Some of the original hardware has been preserved, reel fittings and the butt cap and brass ferrules on the joints.
The rod was originally light green so the blanks had a strip down, colour and glossing before building on. The rings are K style anti tangle spinning guides and I've replicated the original colour scheme of wine red and candy apple red edgings. I believe it will be fished along with a period reel to match, so it should be good now for another 50 years! 😉👍🍻

Silstar Picker handle conversion from start to finish.......... Good for another 35 years now ! 🍺
07/08/2026

Silstar Picker handle conversion from start to finish.......... Good for another 35 years now ! 🍺

Much like buses, don't see one for a while then 2 come at once 😋. Another set of XTB's, just cleaner and looked after a ...
04/07/2026

Much like buses, don't see one for a while then 2 come at once 😋.
Another set of XTB's, just cleaner and looked after a bit better!
No issues with any of these beauties !

A set of original Ultegra XTB's from a week or so ago, lot of water/rust marks, lots of crud and crap, some of the side ...
04/07/2026

A set of original Ultegra XTB's from a week or so ago, lot of water/rust marks, lots of crud and crap, some of the side decals fell off and the last one was really bad, needing a whole bunch of internals hand cleaning with some help from Mr Dremel, and a new worm gear and pawl to replace the very well chewed one that was slowly grinding to death inside !

Follow up post from a couple of weeks back where I'd just started building another couple of swingtip rods - this is one...
16/04/2026

Follow up post from a couple of weeks back where I'd just started building another couple of swingtip rods - this is one of the finished Silverfish swingtip rods - a lovely light grey and metallic blue colour scheme - just about to list it on the website so give me a shout if you're interested ! Cheers. Dave

https://www.swingtip.fishing/swingtip-rods/

Start to - nearly finished - shots of two fly rods that I've put new handles on, as the original slim handles were ge...
04/04/2026

Start to - nearly finished - shots of two fly rods that I've put new handles on, as the original slim handles were getting a bit uncomfortable to use, due to the chap having arthritis in his hands, so gripping a chunkier cork handle, turned from 31.5mm diameter corks, down to about 29.5/30mm, is a lot more comfortable than the old handles which were about 25/26mm at most. Hopefully this makes life a little easier and he can carry on chucking that fluff into his 80's and 90's ! 🥳😁👍🍻

One of my customers that had two of my intermediate swing tip rods built, to colour match his Daiwa reels, recently sen...
12/02/2026

One of my customers that had two of my intermediate swing tip rods built, to colour match his Daiwa reels, recently sent me a really nice message, letting me know how pleased he was with the rods, and a few pics to show me his set up.
Very nice looking set up if I don't mind saying myself! 🥳🍻👍

09/02/2026

Strip down, repair and service on a Daiwa Infinity BR reel. The audible clicker that makes the noise when the baitrunner's spinning away wasn't working. This is fairly common, easy enough to repair and considering the reel hadn't been opened for about 16 years, not surprising !

Conversion on a Daiwa 123m closed face reel from plastic bushes to 2 stainless steel ball bearings. The 125m can also ha...
07/02/2026

Conversion on a Daiwa 123m closed face reel from plastic bushes to 2 stainless steel ball bearings. The 125m can also have the same conversion done, but not the original Daiwa 120m .

The start of the strip down to put new handles on a set of Horizon X5's. This is why a lot of rod builders don't want to...
07/02/2026

The start of the strip down to put new handles on a set of Horizon X5's. This is why a lot of rod builders don't want to do mods and repairs, all the stripping down, and then cleaning up, to get you to the point where you can actually start !

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