I thought I would balance one of my rigs but never did I always liked the light weight feel of everything as a whole, maybe I will try it over the holidays

use the slide on butcaps bps has.if you don,t like it just take it off.you have to be fair about it and fish with it for about a month.

You can do it cheaply also. Some of my rods have balancers that I made. I got some plastic chair leg tips from Lowe's that were close to the diameter of my rod butts. I then bought some lead egg sinkers in 3/4 oz,1 oz and 1 1/2 oz. I put the sinkers on a concrete floor with the hole verticle and whacked them with a hammer until they were the diameter of the inside of the chair leg tips. Then I inserted one of the weights into the chair leg tips and slipped it on the rod butt to check for balance. Most of the time the 1 oz. was the correct size. A wrap of tennis racket handle tape keeps them in place.

Thats a good idea, I can try it with out messing up my rods