Building The Rodfather Endless Wisdom (drc #20 RFEW - 8'6" 3wt 4pc Fast HM Graphite) 24Aug22-28Sep22

Frankly I'm still searching for an astounding graphite 3 weight; it must be better even than the RF Lightning Rod and feature a full wells handle. It's gotta best the GLoomis too of course, and be lighter and a lower swing weight than the fun Rodfather Brook Trout. Enter the Rodfather Endless Wisdom ~ an all purple smaller river rod.  This is it ~ the smaller water weapon I've sought. Endless Wisdom has the strength to toss chubby + droppers 40ft accurately and the very light feel for sometimes smaller fish, yet the strength to land bigger stuff from Rainbow Falls and 11 Mile Canyon if called upon. It's a weak 3wt with an ERN of 2.8 but very fast with an AA of 74°. Frankly it just feels and casts great and looks stunning. I matched it with the Piscifun Sword 3.4 loaded with SA Frequency Trout WF3F (100 grain head); the Frequency Trout is a decent lighter 3 weight line for this less powerful rod. I'll have to think hard what I'll do with the other 3wts 'cause I can't see I'd choose them over the RFEW in many cases... main reasons to fish it over the RF Brook Trout are swing weight and faster action... it's more comfortable and easier to cast, but it is a less powerful rod... I'll fish both.

Here's the hardware arriving. I discovered a new high modulus blank from Rod Geeks called C4 which is the equivalent of a St Croix blank, but made in a Mexican factory (with the same materials and on the same mandrels as St Croix blanks from Minnesota), so it's a lot less expensive. The RFEW is all purple... I bought a 8'6" 4pc 3wt in a deep purple color and mated that to a custom turned full wells handle of purple dyed burl and natural burl cork. I added titanium hardware on the reel seat with Bubinga insert and single foot guides to keep the build-out weight low.

And here's the handle and butt section build-out.

The Rodfather Endless Wisdom is wrapped out in purple of course with minute silver accents. Yeah, one turn of metallic thread on guide wraps is challenging, but sexy. I used my "normal" spiraled 2 thread wrap on the ferrules.

Endless Wisdom balances perfectly with the Sword reel and measures out as mentioned initially ~ it even weighs just a scan 3.06oz and achieved the sought substantial reduction in swing weight to just 7.9oz compared to the RF Brook Trout (9.5oz). The backyard test was amazing and not unlike with the new Pure Irony, I need to slow my casting cadence a bit to get the most from this rod ~ I hope there is yet a fall outing where a smaller river has not yet "disappeared" so I can righteously attack it. Yeah, it was renamed from Air Purple to Endless Wisdom after I threw it ~ it seemed more apt.