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Location: Pelican Rapids, MN | Spoke with Rich at St. Croix as well today - I told him to jump on, but he didn't feel he needed to get into this Pi$$ing match.
According to Rich - And I quote - There are only maybe 5-8 people in the country that actually "Design" a blank - The rest Just make "Requests" to have a certain blank made, It is up to those engineers who "Design" to come up with the tooling and process to get the "Requested" blank built. As awesome of a rod "Builder" as Lonnie is, what he did was "Request" a very specific blank special to his specifications, which had to be "Designed" by the engineers. Quality control was done by both. Then Lonnie and Thornes got a very special and specific selection of blanks designed by St. Croix that met Lonnies very exact requested specs.
Amen.
Jay - a 9' Predator will run you between $350 and $400. depending on the extras.
Edited by Jsondag 5/20/2009 12:54 PM
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