Sometimes I find myself in situations where my brain really struggles to keep up. This was one of those times. The goal was to learn about frequency and its relevance to blank manufacturing. My teacher was the noted Emory Harry. This visit was a prelude to the main course, which is his work on measuring [...]

How’s that for a set of acronyms? Well, if you know what they mean, the you know what the chart is all about (if you don’t know yet, have a look here). North Fork’s itinerant graphic designer slaved for two days over hot pixels to get this thing into shape, and now it’s yours to [...]

The newest version of the NFC catalog (1.05) is now up. It fixes a few minor issues with some of the blank details and so forth. If you will be at the High Point show, we are planning on having a sheet that shows all shipping models, some of which are not in the catalog. [...]

Once builders and casters started using the CCS and began looking at ERN values for heavy-duty rods (Mag Bass comes to mind immediately), they realized that some rods were “off the chart.” While Dr. Bill did indeed create values to deal with rods up to ERN200, the steps between numbers required calculation (not like that [...]

As most Connection readers likely know by now, North Fork is using the CCS (Common Cents System) to varying degrees on our blanks. There have been a few questions about how we are getting our measurements, and how that might impact builders who also do CCS, or are at least interested in what info the [...]

There is definitely a “special language” of the fishing-rod world, especially among manufacturers and builders. While manufacturing has its some of its own lingo, there is a fairly broad spread of terms that apply across the board. At North Fork, we like to be able to communicate effectively with our customers and others in the [...]

Blank weight. Everybody wants to know: Why didn’t the 66X and 705/9 Mag Bass have listed weights when we shipped? Well, last week NFC customers were “asking” for blanks (as in “Where are our blanks?!”), so we had a wild day of packaging, made FedEx by literally two minutes, and then sat down and said, [...]

As some Connection readers may have already noted, the CCS Values page (look under “Pages” in the right-hand sidebar) is now live, with actual CCS data. There may be some adjustments to the data shown (for example, we may yet add or subtract columns, depending on relevancy), but the thing is live and there are [...]

Post data has been moved to the NFC Blanks Stats and CCS Values page!

While Jason will be filling this topic in with more detail going forward, we at least wanted to get a post up about why we’ve adopted the CCS (that would be Dr. Bill Hanneman’s Common Cents System) for our blanks.
First, it’s a matter of consistency. By adopting the Common Cents System, we can comparison-test [...]