Good stuff. You can take it one step farther and use a protractor to measure the tip angle while flexed with a weight. Then you can determine which rods are faster action.
Originally I thought of graphing paper and all, but then I would have to get something mounted to wall and all. Or get that tool hanging board with the grid holes.
The technical method would be some plastic sheets with the rod bend traced on them. Then I can overlay them on spot for actual comparison over the grid graphing paper. Then back in the days of college there was a physics formula to determine the focal point of the angular momentum la di da di dum...and a more simple trigonometry of the curve.
It's amazing how this ice rod industry has changed from typical top sections from full sized rods to actual ice rods.
Just dont let your wife see that list, then she'll know how many rods you have!!! Interesting info...thanks.
No problem...don't have a wife. Got more rods, but these are the newer ones that got me interested in making a comparison. Part of it is because these newer rods are getting to the blank action that used to be found in only custom rods - namely Thorne Bros from what I own. Why pay $$$ when you can get nearly same at half or less that cost. And then again retail ice rods are getting up there in $$$ too.