It strikes me that installing small running guides on a spinning rod backwards (i.e., with the foot extending toward the rod tip) would likely do away with the need for a security wrap of any sort on these guides. Since the ring is basically 90 degrees from the foot on, say, a small size 6 or less single foot guide, why not just install these backwards, aside from cosmetics? As to the larger guides, there may be an argument that the line would be more likely to hang up on the cast, but with the small guides I don't think this would be a problem.

Thanks,
Chuck Horan

I was thinking about this the other day. Sure would make sliding into your rod organizer easier.

Charles,
You can certainly do it if you would like to.

If you do, why don't you install all of the guides that way, and then they would all be uniform.

Certainly different from the norm, but no reason why they wouldn't function just fine.

Roger

Whatever problem was causing you to require security wraps or locking wraps would still be present, from the opposite direction.

Most folks use them to keep from pulling out guides when pulling rods from rod lockers. Reversing the guides only means that now the problem would occur when putting rods into the lockers.

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I've heard many people say they use a locking wrap because they fear losing a guide when the line gets wrapped around a guide during a cast, or when a lure gets hung up on an underwater obstruction, etc. Insofar as this is the reason, I think the reverse guide method would obviate the problem altogether. You are right about the rod locker situation, though, I imagine.

It would look a bit odd!

Chris,
Remember, looks is in the eye of the beholder.

I think a better way to look at it is that it would "look unconventional".

Any time that you do something that others don't normally do, it is unconventional.

Take care
Roger

I'm sort of a purist when it comes to the physics of rod design where even an infinitesimal advantage is preferred. Putting the foot of the guide in reverse would move a bit of the mass closer to the tip by a small distance (foot plus wrap thread plus finish). Granted that this is not anything most if not all mortals would sense but is enough to dissuade me from doing that.

Mo