Meet Our Machinery: Blank Fabrication Production Supervisor, Dustin Spencer

Everyone has their favorite St. Croix rods. Whatever your favorite model or series may be, you may have heard or read that it took at least 32 sets of hands to make it before it ever reaches yours. It’s true, and many of those hands come into play during the blank fabrication process.

Spencer says the actual process of crafting a St. Croix Rod blank takes place in two primary sequences. “What we call cold fab basically involves cutting the various raw materials into precise patterns, combining and tacking those patterns together to spec, then carefully rolling them onto the various steel mandrels that give the blanks their shape,” he says. “Warm fab is next, which includes curing the blanks in computer-controlled ovens, inspection, sanding, more inspection, painting, then final inspection.” When the finished blanks leave Spencer’s team, they are ready to receive handles and reel seats, guides and the other components that form a completed St. Croix fishing rod.

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