I got the new issue yesterday. Great Tom Dorsey interview!

Mine was waiting on me when I got home last night. My wife said that she knew there was no use in having me do anything on the house last night because I'd be in the basement shop reading Rodmaker! I've never been disappointed in an issue. Always something new in there. As good as the message boards are they don't begin to touch the magazine for rod building information. I can't imagine building rods and not getting this magazine. I'd be lost and stuck doing the same old same old on every rod.

Think I just stared at the cover photo for 10 minutes before even openning the magazine...

This is a sad commentary... I'm still looking forward to centerfold magazine photos!

Ken, what is even sadder is that I was too stupid to notice that the last issue I received was my last one until this evening! Now I have to wait even longer to get my mitts on an issue that I really was looking forward to!

During the time I was sitting on the couch yelling, Noooooooo! Nooooooooo!, my wife muttered something about a moron and went shopping.

Mine was laying on my chair when I got home from some field work.

I began to read it immediately and when I showed my wife the article on the spiral wrap, she said, "That's just like the one you made a couple of months ago." "Yep", I said. "This guy somehow got hold of my idea. But that's OK."

Actually it was good to see the validation of my own nearly identical design for my first spiral rod.

Another great issue Tom. Thanks.

Definitley has some beautiful pics in this issue. I think the people who took the pics must have spent almost as much time taking the pictures as they did building the rod. Either that or they live somewhere very scenic to begin with.

I'm going to miss this issue. Boo Hoo
Is it possible to get any info on the spiral wrap??

Bill Boetcher - Order this issue of RMM-8(2) as a back issue. If that represents a hardship, and you want some information on Colby's spiral wrap article, then re-visit the long and vigorous discussion of this Bumper System (that you were also involved in) back in the Thread, "Spiral Wrap, which method is better?" by Jim Rippe, from March 4, 2005. [www.rodbuilding.org]

The Bumper System is a 0, 90, 180 degrees (or 360, 270, 180) layout. There are 2 pages of text to the article, with 2 photographs and 2 diagrams depicting the guide placement. -Cliff Hall, Gainesville, FL-

Cliff
I just thought there was a magical thing to it ? What I am hearing , I'll stick to the O'Quinn way.

Bill - Nothing magical!
Just an application of simple logic that gives similar performance with a much less complicated effort. If you like the appearance of the O"Quinn method you lose that in the Colby method but you won't lose any of the positive effect of a spiral wrap. If efficiency of effort is your top criteria than the Colby method appears to be the way to go.
Stan


Stan Grace
Helena, MT
"Our best is none too good"

All I really beleve in is that I like the line to be of the streightest path. I am not strick on Ralph's way to do it, I adjust his way. I let the line tell me where the guides go, weather it be two guides or four guides.
I find that with the reel on and a line from it to the tip, the line shows me . Then of course adjust under pressure. Now if your not going to cast, we are talking a different animal.

No, it's not 0, 90 and 180. Not quite anyway - the difference is that the 90 degree guide on this system does not redirect the line in any way. It's an addition to, rather than part of, the rest of the guide set-up. I do it without the 90 degree guide, Bill uses one just to keep the line from touching the blank. But if you set it up the way he shows, it does nothing in the way of controlling or directing the line as on other spiral wrap methods.

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Tom
Do you find that there is a " max " distance where if gone beyond the line starts to to flop and touch the blank? I usually try to keep it about no more then 10-12".
Thanks

No, not really. Because the bumper guide is an addition to, rather than part of the regular guide set up, the distance between the first and second (not the bumper) guide should not be far enough to allow the line to touch. I would think that on most rods, save for perhaps longer surf rods, you'd never have more than 10 to 12 inches between your first two guides, and the bumper would go between them. So you're certainly in the ballpark on that observation.


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