Does anyone have experience with the CRC American Heritage rod blanks? I did some searching and can’t find many reviews or write ups about these blanks to get an idea of quality and such.

I’m doing a build for my brother and he wants to keep total cost under $100 but wanted carbon fiber grips so that ate at nearly half of the cost so I’m looking to stay around the $30-$40 price range for a colored rod. I’m tossing up between using a CRB color series or the CRC American Heritage blanks. I’ve built on the CRB 6’6 Light-fast action before initially as a trout rod but it acts like a Med-mod. Great ned rig and wacky rod but not what I was expecting. So I’m hoping the CRC will be more responsive and true to action and ratings