Rod repair costs

Porter2 said:
The cork of the older sages higher end rods were much better imho. Thick and denser cork. New sages look pretty with all the filler (think the filler is better today than 20 years ago). But they don’t age as well as the older sage grips … of course this is my opinion. There is still good quality cork out there but think it is more sparse and harder to obtain. Personally I hate cheap cork that easily pits and falls apart shortly after a few fishing trips. Grips will soil but they should remain solid and intact. 20 year old rods basically and the cork while patina is solid.

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I agree on the quality of the older Sage cork. My newest, a 7130 MOD still has slightly better cork than either Burkheimer I own.5FECA500-C123-4104-B5D1-1F5243FEC97E.jpeg
 
Creatch’r said:
I’m actually pretty sad about the idea of new cork. I’ve been working on that distinguished dirty cork look for many years. I’m thankful the rod can be repaired at all. It’s not replaceable IMO. But $195 is pretty insane. I just bought a redington classic trout brand new for less then that.
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I would be too. Don’t know the circumstances of your damage but the two I know of required total rebuild and evidently easier putting on new seat/cork then preserving and reusing the original. That was my take. I don’t use my 8 weights as much, but if you do it shouldn’t take to long to restore Some age appropriate authentication to it. Hell a week in Alaska made all my rods grips age fast. Dirty camping hands.
 
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That rod is actually an rpl+, I am shipping it out Monday. It was recommended to use Cortland 444SL 8wt. I have an RPL 8100-3 with a removable 3 1/2” fighting butt that I mainly cast 2 handed - commando 325-350 with t- tips, and scandi body 300 with poly leaders are my preferred lines.
 
I own 2 older Sage rods. I really like both and will reluctantly pay $200 and consider myself lucky to keep the use of rods with action I know and love. If either gets broken it’s obviously my fault at this point.
 
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I noticed that the updated repair policy considers the SLT (2002-2007) unrepairable … yet some older rods like the LL, DS, RPL, RPLX (from 1990s) are still repairable.

I’m pretty sure there is nothing fancy about the SLT materials, makes me wonder if they just ran out of SLT paint?
 
SSPey said:
I noticed that the updated repair policy considers the SLT (2002-2007) unrepairable … yet some older rods like the LL, DS, RPL, RPLX (from 1990s) are still repairable.

I’m pretty sure there is nothing fancy about the SLT materials, makes me wonder if they just ran out of SLT paint?
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Yeah seemed a bit odd.
 
DimeBrite said:
$125 to repair an unregistered Scott fly rod middle section; costs more if the butt section is broken.
G Loomis only charged $60 to mail out a replacement tip section for an unregistered rod. Good service with Xpeditor!
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It took just under 8 weeks to get my repaired Meridian back from Scott. Not bad at all.
 
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