I think that I read somewhere that Redington rods reverses the spine on some of there 2 piece rods. The guides on the spine side on the butt and opposite side on the top section. It sounds like a good idea what do you think?

Larry,
Not sure with the specific blank you mention, but often there are marketing statements about certain blanks and how they might perform or are made up to be somehow 'better'. The idea by reversing the spine on the butt section you are getting more power on the cast?? But in truth, the stiffest axis isn't the reverse of the spine, its the inside of the natural concave or curvature of the bend.

Rich

That makes good sense Rich. If that is in fact why they are doing it, to supposedly get more power out of one section or the other.

I notice more and more that when I locate the spine on the blanks I use I also spend another minute and find the stiffest axis and it' almost never directly the spine. Anyway I just disregard it and build around the spine one side or the other. Seems to work fine for me and what I am doing. But I don't reverse the two sections. Maybe I should try it and see what happens, but I'm betting that since the tip seems to create the greatest spine effect that it won't make much difference.

I understand that the idea is more power in the tip and more fish fighting power in the butt.

To get the most available fish fighting power in the butt section, you'd have to align it so the stiffest axis would be against the fish. Rarely is the opposite of the spine the stiffest axis. Rich is correct - the stiffest axis is usually found along the inside of the blank's natural concave bend. It is a common misconception that the softest and stiffest axis' are opposite each other. There is no ironclad relationship between the two. Their locations vary from blank to blank. Once in a great while they are 180 degrees opposite. Sometimes they are 90 degrees apart. Most times they fall between about 100 and 170 degress apart.

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