Pinnacle Rods (Silstar/Korea) have a reoccuring habit of making one off custom guides for their production rods, that are difficut to replace. Case in point they made an IMT series rod some 4-5 or so years back with gold frame guides with gold cermet rings (gold on gold). No Mfg offers that exact guide as a possible replacement and I have spoken with David Moon from Silistar in an attempt to aquire some with no success to date. I am looking for a single foot size 25 (preffered) or a 30 spinning guide (gold on gold IMT series)
More recently Silstar came out with a "Ti" series rod utilizing Tri Wing Guides that have a black frame encircling a gold cermet Tri-oval ring. Again finding matching replacement guides is a nightmare. I had occasion to work in a Retail Fishing enviroment and use to gleen a couple of these guides with corresponding tips (for the IMT's also) from broken rods destine to be sent back to the mfg, so to allow for this sort of emergencey replacement (Sort of like premeptivly having all your Foghorn feathers numbered) You can't get one of everything. I am in need of a double foot black framed Tri-oval gold cermet ringed size 7 guide and (2) Two tip tops size 6.5 64ths barrel with a 7 mm Tri-oval ring. I can find a close enough replacement using black chrome framed with a (round) 7 mm gold cermet ring that may have to suffice.
If any of You fellow rainy day component horders out there have any of the indicated yet, seldom seen varmits in your guide drawer please be kind enough to contact me, it would be greatly appreciated and I humbly thank you in advance. Send any possible responces to
gigmassa@yahoo.com
