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If you could customize your helium what would you do?

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Kistler1
7/20/04 8:43pm If you could customize your helium what would you do? Reply with quote

What would your dream Helium look like? Question
TTCal
7/20/04 10:49pm Reply with quote

Ti guides maybe? Trouble is, are there Ti guides available with the blue inserts or any colored inserts? Smile
sdfd504
7/20/04 11:45pm Reply with quote

After just getting my new Helium i don't think i would change a thing on it. Although next time i will be getting my name on the rod now that i know that I like the Heiulms so much Very Happy
Triton 19
7/24/04 10:12am Reply with quote

All Heliums are a dream the way that they are. Maybe some new cool graphics or logo.
jcheetam
7/24/04 11:21am Reply with quote

I have a few things I would like in a dream Helium: 1). split grip on both my casting and spinning rods, 2) Recoil guides on my spinning rods, and 3), a spiral wrap on my casting rods. I would also like a faster action on a 7 ft spinning rod with a slightly longer handle for throwing tubes. I could only imagine how light a 7ft Medium Spinning rod would be with a split grip and Recoil guides...that would be SWEET!
chavez
7/24/04 4:09pm Reply with quote

If I could 'trick out' a custom rod, I might see how these might look like on a Helium:



"American Tackle Casting HolographicÙ Guides
These HolographicÙ Casting Guides will provide your rods with reliable quality components and an original look. The super-hard Holographic Titanium Nitride coating on the frames and zirconia rings used in these guides changes colors (red, blue, gold, purple, pink) depending on the angle you look at it. "

If it was a bass rod, I would also add a small holographic largemouth at the base of the rod and have a matching TiNi hook keeper instead of the standard stainless one.

chavez
7/24/04 4:14pm Reply with quote

sdesign wrote:
Ti guides maybe? Trouble is, are there Ti guides available with the blue inserts or any colored inserts? Smile


SD,

Cabela's carries these Smile



BTW, I know you have Ti Litespeed bike. Custom road bike dealers used to offer acid baths for Ti frames to produce similar colors (though not the same effect) and the process besides giving the psychadelic colors could also produce a a tough coating similar to the anodization process for aluminum. You ought to look into it for your Litespeed bike. Wink

Kistler1
7/24/04 6:56pm Reply with quote

Hey guys, we can do all of this in a custom order if you want. I love the feedback that you provide. Your input helps us grow as a rod compamy. Keep the information coming.
Lightninrod
7/25/04 8:02am Reply with quote

Those are some 'purty' line guides Cool . The colors remind me of my Daiwa ITO reel.

Dan

TTCal
7/25/04 6:43pm Reply with quote

Lightninrod wrote:
Those are some 'purty' line guides Cool . The colors remind me of my Daiwa ITO reel.

Dan


Dan... my thoughts exactly.. wouldn't that make a nice combo for the Ito?!?!?!? wow!!!

Nice links Chavez... but no, not doin' that to my road bike! LOL

Lightninrod
7/26/04 8:51am Reply with quote

Yes it would sd. Here is a [-- login to view link --] but that doesn't show all its colors.



Dan

27jerryo
7/27/04 2:28pm removable butt Reply with quote

I would like to see one with a removable butt cap. One that screw in and out. That way if i wanted to weight the end on my rod I could do this to achieve overall balance with the reel. I have this on some of my other rods. And I feel that it increases sensativity. It does increase weight of course. But it feels weird to me to fish with a rod that isnt balanced at the reel.
Koyak
7/28/04 8:03pm Reply with quote

Definitely Ti guides.

For a spinning rod, I'd like to see a Tennessee or a split Tennessee handle.
Hook hanger mounted 90 degrees to the guides.

for a baitcast rod. Just Ti guides. That will make them perfect.

Mike

Hinsdale
8/7/04 9:19am Reply with quote

Koyak- You took the words out of my mouth. The hook holder on my 7 ft ML Helium Baitcaster, is kinda tought get my spinner hooks and live bait hooks in there. Therefore I would angle it up. Gotta love the Blue Guides baby! Matches my blue Abu! Very Happy

JR

AustinBass
8/9/04 10:45am Hook Keeper Reply with quote

Hinsdale, are you putting your hook through the keeper, or just hooking them around as shown in the photo? Just about any hooks slip under the keeper for me. On spinning rods, the line may get caught in the keeper when you hold it for a cast, so I think by 90 degrees from the guides, he means mount it on the side. A friend of mine orders his Heliums with the keeper on the backside of the rod, to keep salty baits away from his magnesium reels.


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