........it'll be a piece of cake!!!  Glad I opted for the Dremel first instead of the miter saw.  I would have ruined an $80 blade.   The butt cap was a 2" long x 1/2" dia. steel plug.  Looks like its gonna be a 5" extension now!!

 

Contact cement dries much faster when it's sunny and 60 than it does when it's 30 and windy!

 

Rough block.

 

Ready to ship out!

I've seen that before . Seems like an expensive and heavy way to mount a butt cap/grip.

I'm guessing it was how they made it feel less tip heavy.

I have Dobyns champion I shortened. It was almost the same. A steel cap around the blank instead of a plug on the inside. I didn't like the rod before and I didn't like it after the modification. My first Dobyns. And my last.

I'm glad I saw this. A buddy wants me to extend one of his Dobyn's crankbait rod handles. Guess it will be a bit more intensive than I thought it would be.

27 minutes ago, basscatcher8 said:

I'm glad I saw this. A buddy wants me to extend one of his Dobyn's crankbait rod handles. Guess it will be a bit more intensive than I thought it would be.

What I would suggest is to drill a small exploritory hole through the butt cap to see how deep it goes.  That's what I ended up doing after I took the first inch off.