Would you go section to section from the butt aligning the pieces for the straightest axis or or spine the sections and adjust the tip section to find the straightest axis on which to build or any other idea?

John
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Right or wrong, here's how I do it.

Start with the butt section and find the straightest axis, mark it. Add second section and repeat the process. After finding the straightest axis on the second section and marking it, align the mark on the first with the second. Double check and continue along the same method until all sections and assembled and verified.

You can align by sight OR by using your wrapper and a piece of graph paper at the tip end on a wall. IF you use the wrapper and graph paper method, rotate the blank and watch for the HIGHEST peak at zero degrees while rotating.

Find the straightest axis for each section mark them and assemble.


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You can also roll each section on a flat surface. When the tip goes up mark the top of that section.

Bill - willierods.com

Bill, is it ALWAYS true that a curved section will tend to want to rotate to the inner side like that. It makes sense that if a blank is curved that that's the side it would most likely want to torque to, but I was wondering that's true 100% of the time.

-jb

No, it's not. But it doesn't matter since the lever arm effect of the guides trumps about anything else, including spine or curve.

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