Quick question....

I've followed the threadless guide wraps articles in RMM, but all the pictures of guides with threadless guide wraps I've seen have been on double foot guides. Will this application work on single foot spinning guides?

I'm planning on doing a clear guide wrap with white silk/varnish on this next build, but was thinking that the threadless technique would give me a lighter all around feel. That would be a bonus!

Thanks in advance!

Danny

"There is a principle which is a bar against all information,which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance--that principle is contempt prior to investigation."
- Herbert Spencer

Most of the rods I have done are with spiral wrapped casting rods using double foot attachments. I tend to trust the technique with double foot attachments but have about forty rods in service using single foot guides. I had two "last guide on tip section" single foot guides "on conventional guide on top" very lite action popping rods come loose. The technique is sound for lite rods if done properly. I have not done any spinning rods with long moment arms on the guide frames for the fear of pulling loose.

I have a surf rod with the threadless guide attachment and the low frame single foot guides on the tip are attached with PermaGloss. They have held up fine when fishing, although one guide did break loose when the guy I loaned it to knocked it over onto a concrete ramp and the rod hit the pavement full force. One of the single foot guides popped off upon impact. I slipped it back into the same location and overcoated with 3 more thickened coats of PG. It has been fine so far.

Because you have to create a decent build up of PG for this method to work, I tend to doubt that you'd end up saving any weight over a simple silk wrap with just a couple or three coats of varnish. Weight-wise I'd tend to believe the difference between the two is a wash.


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