Good morning,

I have to be honest I dont secure the guide foot with anything.

when I first started using single foot guides I was taping them down

but that was a pain and often (esp the tiny guides) often the guide would move .

by accident I found I didnt need anything.

I make 4 or 5 wraps then insert the guide under the thread tightly at a slight angle this will hold the guide down , then ill make a few more tight turns over the guide foot , I then straighten out the foot and pack my first couple of wraps straight and then wrap the rest of the way .

once you get a few wraps on the foot it stays right in place.

this is the easiest way for me and its cut my wrapping time down quite a bit as im not playing with the tape...

"John"

Gentlemen - when I posed the question it never occurred to me that I would get so many responses from so many (clearly) inventive people!

Thanks a bunch!

Paul

I'm on the side of the surgical tubing crowd.
1/ Determine how you want to use the spine and mark it
2/ Slide a bunch of them down the rod blank.
3/ Put on the tiptop
3/ Wrap any ferrules
4/ Determine where the "key guide" should go (on a light rod whip it from side to side - where you see a "cross over" or "x" in the resultant sine wave that is the optimum placement for your first guide).
5/ Do a static deflection test and insert guides where necessary either side of the "key guide" by sliding guides under the surgical tubing slices
6/ Start your wrap over the toes of the guide foot (5-10 turns). When you are within several turns of the tubing cut it with a pair of small embroidery scissors / surgical scissors (large finger holes / small curved nose). This is safer than cutting with a razor blade (too many chances to cut the wrapping thread or knicking the standing (already wrapped) threads.