Flexible RECOIL Fly Rod Guides - An Act of God?

-This looks like the greatest thing since sliced bread.

-Isn't this the same stuff as the flexible eyeglass frames.

-You can smack'em, crush'em and they bounce back?

-No more cracked and failing epoxy, cause the guide is more flexible
than the rod?

-I found some minor info in one of the rodbuilders forums, googled
to the site...

---- Any opinions on these guides, cause $2.00 each ain't toooooo
bad... ???? ----------------------


RECOIL Fly Rod Guides

http://www.rec.com/rec/web/html/products.html


"RECOIL guides are made from an extremely hard but flexible "Shape Memory"
alloy, which does not require plating, cannot corrode in any environment,
and returns to its original shape after repeated deformations."

"No Left Turn" wrote in
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---- Any opinions on these guides, cause $2.00 each ain't
toooooo bad... ???? ----------------------

I think they're a solution looking for a problem.

Scott

"Scott Seidman" wrote in message
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"No Left Turn" wrote in
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---- Any opinions on these guides, cause $2.00 each ain't
toooooo bad... ???? ----------------------

I think they're a solution looking for a problem.

Scott

As I recall, that used to be said of lasers back in the early days of their
development. One suspects these guides will be nowhere near as successful.


Wolfgang
who, nevertheless, owns a great many more line guides than lasers.

"Scott Seidman" wrote in message
. 1.4...
"No Left Turn" wrote in
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---- Any opinions on these guides, cause $2.00 each ain't
toooooo bad... ???? ----------------------

I think they're a solution looking for a problem.

Scott

As I recall, that used to be said of lasers back in the early days of their
development. One suspects these guides will be nowhere near as successful.


Wolfgang
who, nevertheless, owns a great many more line guides than lasers.

From: "No Left Turn"
Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com
Newsgroups: rec.outdoors.fishing.fly
Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2004 14:49:19 -0600
Subject: Flexible RECOIL Fly Rod Guides - An Act of God?

.........

-I found some minor info in one of the rodbuilders forums, googled
to the site...

---- Any opinions on these guides, cause $2.00 each ain't toooooo
bad... ???? ----------------------


RECOIL Fly Rod Guides

http://www.rec.com/rec/web/html/products.html




if you found only minor opinions, you haven't been over to rodbuilding.org
plenty of testimonials there about the recoils.


eric
fresno, ca.

"eric paul zamora" wrote in message
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From: "No Left Turn"
Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com
Newsgroups: rec.outdoors.fishing.fly
Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2004 14:49:19 -0600
Subject: Flexible RECOIL Fly Rod Guides - An Act of God?

........

-I found some minor info in one of the rodbuilders forums,
googled
to the site...

---- Any opinions on these guides, cause $2.00 each ain't
toooooo
bad... ???? ----------------------


RECOIL Fly Rod Guides

http://www.rec.com/rec/web/html/products.html




if you found only minor opinions, you haven't been over to rodbuilding.org
plenty of testimonials there about the recoils.

----------------
rodbuilding.org

Thanks !

But how do you search the site?

From: "No Left Turn"

rodbuilding.org

Thanks !

But how do you search the site?

I'll bet one of Wofgang's shiny new nickels that if you clicked on "search" at
the top of the main page, and then typed "recoil" in the dialog box, you'd find
what you're looking for.


George Adams

"All good fishermen stay young until they die, for fishing is the only dream of
youth that doth not grow stale with age."
---- J.W Muller

"No Left Turn" wrote in
:

---- Any opinions on these guides, cause $2.00 each ain't
toooooo bad... ???? ----------------------

I think they're a solution looking for a problem.

Scott

Recoil guides are pretty neat, but a few things need mentioning. They do
deflect and bounce back, but some are also breaking at the epoxy on snakes
and at the 90 deg bend on single foots. They are not indestructible. They
also are just soldered at the single foot joint because to much heat, will
cause them to lose their set. This make them prone to solder failure and
springing apart if you use to much heat in shaping the foot before putting
on the thread. Another thing is they are noisier than stainless guides or
any ceramic set, some lines really sing thru them. The hardness/abrasion
resistance is no better than a quality stainless guide.
As mentioned before there is little you can't find out about rods, blanks,
or rodbuilding that is not on rodbuilding.org. One example is the blanks
built at Dan Craft Ent. four rod blank series that are as good as any in the
world, with warranties to match, but at 1/3 to 1/4 the price.High modulus
graphite blanks in weights from 1 to 12 wt. The heavier FT blanks will throw
huge amounts of grainage, and are being used as switch rod blanks as well as
single hand presentations. The Sig V blanks are so light that my 7 wt 10 ft
with the reelseat and fighting butt installed was the same weight as a 9 ft
7 wt All Star Austin bare blank. Some reveiws of these blanks are at
flyanglersonline.com in the product review section in the achives.

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news:V8std.624988$mD.259424@attbi_s02...
Recoil guides are pretty neat, but a few things need mentioning. They do
deflect and bounce back, but some are also breaking at the epoxy on snakes
and at the 90 deg bend on single foots. They are not indestructible. They
also are just soldered at the single foot joint because to much heat, will
cause them to lose their set. This make them prone to solder failure and
springing apart if you use to much heat in shaping the foot before putting
on the thread. Another thing is they are noisier than stainless guides or
any ceramic set, some lines really sing thru them. The hardness/abrasion
resistance is no better than a quality stainless guide.
As mentioned before there is little you can't find out about rods, blanks,
or rodbuilding that is not on rodbuilding.org. One example is the blanks
built at Dan Craft Ent. four rod blank series that are as good as any in
the
world, with warranties to match, but at 1/3 to 1/4 the price.High modulus
graphite blanks in weights from 1 to 12 wt. The heavier FT blanks will
throw
huge amounts of grainage, and are being used as switch rod blanks as well
as
single hand presentations. The Sig V blanks are so light that my 7 wt 10
ft
with the reelseat and fighting butt installed was the same weight as a 9
ft
7 wt All Star Austin bare blank. Some reveiws of these blanks are at
flyanglersonline.com in the product review section in the achives.

Grainage?

SNORT!

Wolfgang