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Trying to find out where the put the guides
on this fly rod. Which is the soft side? The top as I push down or side that faces down toward the table. The inside of the curve or the outside? Where do the guides go? Any guide spacing numbers for an IM6 8'6" 4 wt? thanks to all Skip |
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I have heard both. I usually put mine on the soft side. The
important thing is to put them on one or the other. If you put them on the side the rod will tend to cast crooked. Ernie "Skip Summer" wrote in message om... Trying to find out where the put the guides on this fly rod. Which is the soft side? The top as I push down or side that faces down toward the table. The inside of the curve or the outside? Where do the guides go? Any guide spacing numbers for an IM6 8'6" 4 wt? thanks to all Skip |
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Once you've found the spline, put the ti[p top on with the guide facing down
on freshwater rods, tip top up on heavier sal****er rods where casting isn't as important as fish fighting power. Good luck on the rod. "Skip Summer" wrote in message om... Trying to find out where the put the guides on this fly rod. Which is the soft side? The top as I push down or side that faces down toward the table. The inside of the curve or the outside? Where do the guides go? Any guide spacing numbers for an IM6 8'6" 4 wt? thanks to all Skip |
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"Skip Summer" wrote in message
om... Where do the guides go? Any guide spacing numbers for an IM6 8'6" 4 wt? thanks to all Skip, Spacings are measured from the top of the ferrule on butt joints and from the top of the tip top guide. 8' 6", 2 piece Butt 3-7/8" 12-1/8" 21-1/2" Tip 4-7/8" 10-7/8" 17-5/8" 24-1/2" 31-1/2" 38-3/4" 46-5/8" From an Orvis rod building booklet. You should be able to find a kit somewhere with the correct number of guides in the proper sizes. Anglerboy |
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Anglerboy wrote:
"Skip Summer" wrote in message om... Where do the guides go? Any guide spacing numbers for an IM6 8'6" 4 wt? thanks to all Skip, Spacings are measured from the top of the ferrule on butt joints and from the top of the tip top guide. 8' 6", 2 piece Butt 3-7/8" 12-1/8" 21-1/2" Tip 4-7/8" 10-7/8" 17-5/8" 24-1/2" 31-1/2" 38-3/4" 46-5/8" From an Orvis rod building booklet. You should be able to find a kit somewhere with the correct number of guides in the proper sizes. I've only built one rod, and I was fanatical about determining the guide spacings and measuring them as accurately as I could. I felt kind of silly, though, because it seemed like I could do as good a job by just "eyeballing" it. So here's a question for experienced rod builders: Is getting the exact recommended guide spacings really that important? BTW, I intend no criticism of Anglerboy for helping Skip out with his question. -- Cut "to the chase" for my email address. |
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"rw" wrote: I've only built one rod, and I was fanatical about determining the guide spacings and measuring them as accurately as I could. I felt kind of silly, though, because it seemed like I could do as good a job by just "eyeballing" it. So here's a question for experienced rod builders: Is getting the exact recommended guide spacings really that important? You'll find out how important it is if you ever try to get a warranty replacement and the customer service guys spot any amount of variance. I don't think small variances will lower the performance or lessen the life expectancy of a rod, but I know for a fact some manufacturers will use it as an excuse to disallow a claim. |
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"Charlie Wilson" wrote:
"rw" wrote: I've only built one rod, and I was fanatical about determining the guide spacings and measuring them as accurately as I could. I felt kind of silly, though, because it seemed like I could do as good a job by just "eyeballing" it. So here's a question for experienced rod builders: Is getting the exact recommended guide spacings really that important? You'll find out how important it is if you ever try to get a warranty replacement and the customer service guys spot any amount of variance. I don't think small variances will lower the performance or lessen the life expectancy of a rod, but I know for a fact some manufacturers will use it as an excuse to disallow a claim. I have 3 Sage RPLX 9'8wt 2 piece rods that I built from blanks. We've broken several times and returned them to Sage for replacement blanks. I've spaced then in the standard Sage arrangement, and also in G Loomis's configuration which uses the same number of guides but has 3 on the butt section instead of 2. No comment or complaint from Sage. In my experience, the good companies don't look for excuses to disallow a claim. Who was it that disallowed one? Chas remove fly fish to reply http://home.comcast.net/~chas.wade/w...ome.html-.html San Juan Pictures at: http://home.comcast.net/~chasepike/wsb/index.html |
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"Chas Wade" wrote : In my experience, the good companies don't look for excuses to disallow a claim. Who was it that disallowed one? Powell. They did it to a friend who is a prominent local rod builder, shortly before he stopped building on their blanks. |
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......, then string up the rod with flyline
and put enough pull on the line to put a bend in the rod. Then you study the guides, looking for, hell, i don't know, things that don't look right.... As I understand it (or perhaps misunderstand it), the angles that the line bends when it goes through each guide should all be equal. (I apologize for writing something as awkward as "angles that the line bends," but at the moment, I can't think of a more elegant way to say it. Somehow,"angle of dangle" doesn't seem appropriate.) vince |
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