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Guide spacing on 8' Cobia blank
Posted by: Dale Cecil (---.207-68.panhandle.res.rr.com)
Date: January 15, 2006 12:51PM

I am building two 8' cobia rods for a tackle shop and he only wants 5 guides I use 6 to 7 how should I space a 5 guide 8' blank?

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Re: Guide spacing on 8' Cobia blank
Posted by: Ken Preston (---.longhl01.md.comcast.net)
Date: January 15, 2006 02:13PM

Dale -
What type blank? Action? Line Wt? Personally I think that you ought to go back and push for more guides to be put on these rods unless they're really, really heavy blanks. As you probably know cobia can get plenty large and they're a very tough fish - lots of endurance and tend to have a little "reserve" of enegy boat side (you certainly don't want a lively one in the boat with you!).

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Re: Guide spacing on 8' Cobia blank
Posted by: Jay Lancaster (12.174.138.---)
Date: January 15, 2006 02:52PM

He doesn't want you to warrant it against breakage does he?

Jay

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Re: Guide spacing on 8' Cobia blank
Posted by: Dale Cecil (---.207-68.panhandle.res.rr.com)
Date: January 15, 2006 09:17PM

Dale Cecil Wrote:
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> I am building two 8' cobia rods for a tackle shop
> and he only wants 5 guides I use 6 to 7 how should
> I space a 5 guide 8' blank?


Blank is a St.Croix F80MBK

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Re: Guide spacing on 8' Cobia blank
Posted by: Ken Preston (---.longhl01.md.comcast.net)
Date: January 15, 2006 09:54PM


Model Line Lure Butt Tip
F80M-BK STC SPINNING 10-20lb. 3/4-3oz. M FAST 8 .865 7


If this is the blank then I would recommend you do NOT build this with the 5 guides that the man wants unless he really understands what he is doing and does not expect a free replacement . The last cobia spinning rod I built was on a PacBay PBX-II series graphite rod (7 footer) and it wound up with 8 guides on it to carry the load evenly. Admittedly I did opt for smaller rings but I used a "modified" concept layout & static distribuition test . At first I thought I could do this with 7 guides -- it just didn't measure out correctly

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