As a rod builder I have not used hardloy guides on a rod for the best part
of seven yrs. They are prone to breaking,
and cracking . Ok if you manufacture 100's of thousands of rods. But bad
from my point of veiw ,when I build maybe a 100 rods a yr.

Hardloy cannot take the punishment of the superlines. and the alconite
guides are only guaranteed to hold up against
Power Pro. Or so Power Pro says!

So for the money alconite guides are the best deal so far!
But I am leaning towards the new holographic guides for some rods. These
also use a cubic zerconia (sp) guide insert.

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"The Shadow"
Millennium Rods
"Craig Baugher" wrote in message
news:evl6c.35023$_w.570278@attbi_s53...
Rick Clunn BPS Signature $99 - SiC Guides, and the seems to be in your
budget range.

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Craig Baugher
Be Confident, Focused, but most of all Have FUN!