Job Description:

• 1) Assembles fishing rods from rod blanks, line guides, ferrules, handles, and reel seats: Heats rod cement over alcohol lamp and drip-melts it into ferrules, rod tip, and reel seat and handle socket.

• 2) Presses ferrules, rod tip, and other parts onto rod blank while cement is hot and fluid.

• 3) Aligns and spaces line guides on rod, and secures, using rod-winding-thread.

• 4) Winds additional bands of rod-winding-thread at ends of rod tip and ferrules to strengthen and decorate rod.

• 5) May apply varnish, lacquer, or shellac to rod and windings.

• 6) May repair rods and replace tips, line guides, ferrules, and windings.

• 7) May assemble kits of fishing rod parts.