After using the search feature I found most of the answers to my questions but I still have one more.

I've got some double foot fuji guides that I'm prepping for some surf rods and the feet on the guides kind of curls over at the end of each foot causing the middle of the guide feet to not touch the blank. I've read in Tom's book about filing the bottom of the feet down and I have done some of that but I still have a fairly substantial gap. Is there any way that you guys can think of to try and level the feet on the blank other than grinding them down more? I would try and bend them some but these are some beefy guides with large frames and one of the feet on the guides is made by the two sides of the frame coming together. I really don't want to start bending that foot if it might cause the foot to seperate.

Myself,,,,, hammer and then grind/sand. Beefy guides should take heavy handling. Bending with a pair of pliers works too, and the other pair of pliers stops the bending stress from going beyond.
Sanding and filing is finish work. And using finishing tools to do larger magnitude tasks is usually not the best path. For instance, say you have a bent steel rod. Are you going to grind and grind it into a smaller straight rod as is, or bend it back in the worst spots to minimize grinding (and end up with more steel in the final result as well).

Thanks Dave. I didn't want to start banging away on these until I got some confirmation that I wasn't doing anything wrong.

Proper filing technique usually makes quick work of this type of thing. Get a good file and remember that it only cuts in one direction.

Be careful "hammering" on them - you could loosed a ceramic ring.

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Guess it depends on how outtawhack it is. Certainly over about 1/2 a mm I'd be bending or pounding rather than filing. Taking .5mm off to file flat would darn near take 1/2 the metal off many guides. As the legs are radiused on most, to the eye they look deceptively thicker than they really are. Discretionary use of a little hammer on an anvil horn works very well for me. Then touch up with file on the top and abrasive wrapped dowel underneath..