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what size guides?
Posted by: eric riggs (---.nyc.res.rr.com)
Date: April 21, 2005 12:56AM

Building two 10 ft. Pac Bay PBX XGSU100 (1 an M the other an H) -2's for surf casting conventional.
Want to use Fuji Hardloy FUJ-NLG's
How many and which sizes? Am I right in thinking around 6 + tip top?
someting like sizes 20, 16, 12, 10, 10, 10 wit a 10 tip top?
All Suggestions seriously considered!
Thanks Again folks.

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Re: what size guides?
Posted by: Shane M. Hunter (---.bvu.edu)
Date: April 21, 2005 03:47AM

One good source to use is the mudhole.com catalog. You can download it and it will have good suggestions for numbers of guides and placements. Once you have them in the general location then it is time to do the static deflection test and you can custom place them to the rod. Six guides sounds a little too few to me for a 10' rod but I am an amateur so I could be wrong. Hope that helps

Shane

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Re: what size guides?
Posted by: Bruce Wetzel (---.nmci.navy.mil)
Date: April 21, 2005 07:14AM

Eric, I just finished two 12' conventional surf rods, and am on my third. The first one had 8 guides plus tip, the second had seven guides plus tip. Your estimate for six plus tip sounds right. You may want to consider going up on the guide size a tad. I started with a 25, then two 20's, two 16's, two 14's and a 14 tip. 10 seems awful small for a surf rod, especially if you're using a shock line to cast. Just my opinion, but I favor the bigger guides for surf casting. I'd also consider underwrapping the guides. Good luck.

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