{"id":1020,"date":"2019-04-08T09:32:22","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T08:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/?p=1020"},"modified":"2019-04-08T11:01:11","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T10:01:11","slug":"the-finest-cork-money-can-buy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/2019\/04\/08\/the-finest-cork-money-can-buy\/","title":{"rendered":"The finest cork money can buy!"},"content":{"rendered":"

A drawer full of Hot Torpedo cork back at the UK Sexyloops workshop. Contrary to what you may believe, it is still possible to acquire excellent cork grips! And we do fit the best.<\/p>\n

How can we afford to do this when the big companies can\u2019t? It\u2019s because we are the retailer as well as the manufacturer. This allows us to build you a far more expensive rod for the same top end price. We could have made a \u201csame quality as everyone else rod\u201d but for a cheaper price \u00a0but I didn\u2019t want to do that. It\u2019s much more interesting to try to make the best!<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not just cork of course, but the highest quality carbon blanks, titanium framed stripping guides, Recoils, Torzites or H&H rings, Rec Components fittings and rod tubes and incredible workmanship, hand-built by my colleague and outstanding rod builder, Lee Martell in Hastings.<\/p>\n

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Reel seat spacers, machined and anodised in the UK.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The only comparison that you can make between Sage, Scott and Loomis – all excellent companies and all of which I\u2019ve been involved with in the past (for one thing, I\u2019ve demonstrated with all three companies’ rods over the past 25 years)… the only comparison you can make is a similar USD selling price. Quality wise they can\u2019t afford to match us.<\/p>\n

But where we are truly different, in my opinion, is that we have better blanks. But hey that\u2019s the bit I do, so I would think that! \ud83d\ude00 I\u2019m not going to design a blank that I think is worse am I?!<\/p>\n

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You can see all of our rods here <\/a>.<\/p>\n

Incidentally I\u2019ve almost finalised the 7\u20196 3\/4WT. I have two rods to take jungle fishing for Mahseer shortly. \u00a0Only Sexyloops rods are designed in the field where the tester may get eaten by a tiger! Those are the lengths we go to to bring you a better rod. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

Cheers, Paul<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A drawer full of Hot Torpedo cork back at the UK Sexyloops workshop. Contrary to what you may believe, it is still possible to acquire excellent cork grips! And we do fit the best. How can we afford to do this when the big companies can\u2019t? It\u2019s because we are the retailer as well as … Continue reading “The finest cork money can buy!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1020"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1026,"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020\/revisions\/1026"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}