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1990's Sage LL Blems

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I bought a few of the subject blems back in the 90's.

Buying blems is always a bit risky, but it's an accepted risk.....

I was fortunate that most of the blanks were straight and the taper and tips were pretty spot on to a first run blank of the same model.

Unfortunately, a couple were a bit off....... In this case, the blanks are 586-2 LLs and the tip diameter measures out to be 5.5 whereas the same model from the factory would measure out at 4.5

Question: How would this affect the 'action ' of the finished rod? I don't have a factory 586-2 LL to compare to my one finished 586-2 LL Blem. I don't want to taint any replies, so I'll not state what I've personally experienced from casting a 5WF Floater as well as a 24' sink tip on the one finished rod.

Thanks.
 
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