wrote:

There is no sloppy, soft side of a blank. If there was we'd all be in
trouble as the soft and hard sides of a blank's spline are rarely 180 deg.
apart.

The blank of the one rod I've built definitely had a spine, and the soft
side and stiff side were 180 degrees apart. I read somewhere that this
occurs because of the way the the graphite overlaps when it's wrapped on
the mandrel. That sounds plausible to me.

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