Don---You are doing a great job. I have thought right from the beginning that you were doing a lot of 'optimistic estimating" in regards to the finished cost. I have built too damn many over the years to think it was possible to build for 3K. Thats okay though--sometimes if you sat down and truly added up what everything was going to cost, the project would never get started. And, in the final concencus, you will have a great little rod, and have provided yourself and all of us people following your thread with thousands of dollars worth of "entertainment.---Brian