I agree, chop those absurd projections off!!!

I never ceases to amaze me what I pick up on this board. I've always been anoyed by these little projections but it nas never occurred to me to grind/file them off until reading this thread. That's why I make this one of my mandantory stops each morning. Thanks for the tip and STAND BACK, THE DREMMEL TOOL IS COMING OUT!

I don't worry about them as I double wrap every thing,mostly with "Black". If the thread seperates on the way up, it fills in on the way down and with Black it never shows. Jesse

Offffffff with them. I grind them off most of the time.
Thanks for asking.
Joe

I don't grind, but they are as useful on guides as they are on a boar hog.

I've always been more of a leg man than a teat man myself

Keith

grind em off.

I just leave them. My wraps are never really packed that tight anyway. I pretty much use single foots and I don't really want the foot too small.

I use Snake Brand and very seldom have to touch them. Great guides.

This post will irritate one of the manufacturers. I have screamed bloody murder to him and he thinks I am a nut. On the single foot fly guides that are so long with the "teat" sticking out the side up near the ring end they are bent at the wrong position. The first radius should have been at the end of the "teat" and the second radius up the frame near the ring. They tried to get the guide lower by using the old stamping die and making only one bend in the wrong place. It is impossible to wrap that guide past the projection without the thread heading for a divorce. It has to be ground off and also the foot must be shortened.

Gon Fishn