Rate these FUJI guides please.

Keep looking!

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"The Shadow"
Millennium Rods
"QUAKEnSHAKE" wrote in message
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quote--
From: (Craig Baugher)
their Aluminum Oxide and Hardloy guides are prime examples of what not
to buy.
Look for SiC guides and you cannot go wrong. ---quote

Hmm. So how much importance goes toward guides?

The $90 7' St. Croix Premier that I was considering has Aluminum Oxide.
The $110 7' Team All-Star has Titanium coated stainless steel.

IMO good quailty Hardloy giudes are just fine and will last a life time
for bass fishing..

Rick Clunn BPS Signature $99 - SiC Guides, and the seems to be in your
budget range.

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

"good quality Hardloy guides"..

The word 'Hardloy' is to Quality as 'Good' is to Bad.

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

Why do you say Hardloy is "bad"? Have you had a bad experience?

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.

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

No bad experiences with them here. All, or at least most of my BPS rods have
the Hardloy guides, while my others either have Alconite or SiC. Ok, only
have one SiC rod, but so far I can't tell eny difference between them.

What differences should I be looking for? I use mono with just about
everything I own with exceptions of a braid every now and then, but it's
taken off as soon as it's not necessary to use. Maybe I should do the line
test like Craig said earlier...


"AJH" wrote in message
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Why do you say Hardloy is "bad"? Have you had a bad experience?

sphipps, what is the mono test going to prove? also I have never seen a
roller guide on a bass fishing rod..have you? Is it all about heat? I
just don't see where line will generate much heat bass fishing..

quote--
From: (Craig=A0Baugher)
Rick Clunn BPS Signature $99 - SiC Guides, and the seems to be in your
budget range.
-- quote

Is this the one you mention cause its on sale for $50 :-) Rick Clunn
IM8 w/sic guides. I just put this on my list to check out at the big BPS
sale. Thank You.

http://www.basspro-shops.com/servlet...d=3D44293&hva=
rTarget=3Dsearch&cmCat=3DSearchResults

"QUAKEnSHAKE" wrote in message
...

quote--
From: (Craig Baugher)
Rick Clunn BPS Signature $99 - SiC Guides, and the seems to be in your
budget range.
-- quote

Is this the one you mention cause its on sale for $50 :-) Rick Clunn
IM8 w/sic guides. I just put this on my list to check out at the big BPS
sale. Thank You.

http://www.basspro-shops.com/servlet...=SearchResults

I've got a box full of these - nice rods IMO.