I recently decided to remove my rod organizer and get rod socks for all my rods and whoever was fishing with me. I hate having rods laying around that are not being used. With that being the case, I needed about 20 rod socks. To purchase that many, I was going to cost at least $100 if I bought the cheapest I could find. I checked Ebay and found I could purchase a 100 foot roll of braided nylon 3/4 inch expandable sleeving for about $15. I used a paint roller extension pole as my "rod". Feed the end of the sleeve onto the pole all the way up to the length you want. Use a soldering gun to cut the sleeve from the roll. I used a piece of heat shrink tubing on the end to close the sock. Use a heat gun to "set the sleeve" aginst the pole. Once the sleeve cools (seconds) this will cause it to roughly stay about the same size as the pole. Take the sock off the pole and fold the opening end inside itself an inch or so. I then pushed this end up on a funnel, then heated it slightly again with the heat gun. Once it cooled, it kept the shape of the funnel and made the opening of the sock a flared end. From the 100 foot roll I was able to make 18 rod socks of varying length. Probably could have got a couple more out of it without a learning curve.
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Originally Posted by DustyD26
