i know this must have been brought up in prior messages but I was looking for an easy and efficient way to secure guides to the rod prior to wrapping. I have been doing more spiral rods and have been experimenting more with different guide positions and i get frustrated moving the guides around and resecuring them...any suggestions would be appreciated

jk

I use Flex Coat guide foot adhesive, but if you're moving them around a fair amount you might want to consider surgical tubing or the kind of rubber bands that orthodontists give people with braces.

Go to a model/hobby shop and get some of the tubing that is used for fuel lines. It comes in various sizes. A few minutes with a razor blade and cutting board and you wil have couple years supply of tiny rubberbands that you can slide on to the blank before you glue on the tip top. Once the wrap is holding the guide secure, just nick with a razor and they fly off

Mike

Hi Josh,
I wrap many spiral rods. The method I use to secure the guides to the blank prior to wrappin is with little bands of stretch tubing. I cut these from "surgical" tubing I buy from MudHole, there's two sizes, I buy both. The small size for tip sections, larger size stretches over the butt sections. Take the tubing, and cut little 1/8" cross sections using an anvil type pruning shears or razor blade. I then take a pair of long nosed 90 degree curved/bent pliers poked into the hole of the band then stretching it over the small end of the blank and work it down the blank... BE CAREFUL here, to not scratch the blank with the plier teeth.
Roll the bands in place and secure the foot fothe components. don't forget the hookeeper, it needs a band too!

Hope this helps, I converted to this type of securing last year haven't looked back.


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David A. Fuller,
Great Basin Fishing Rods
Full-Time RV'r Traveling- n- Fishing
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