anybody ever done one on a 2 piece blank ?? just curious,, had a customer ask for one

Carl,
Just mark the side of your butt section, and the matching side of your tip section. Since the guides are rotating, you would do your client a favor by making alignment marks on each half of the rod. That way, it will be easy for the client to assemble.

Other than that, just go ahead, match up your alignment marks, and place and wrap your guides as though it was a one piece blank.

I would put the alignment marks on the underside of the rod, simply to make them less obtruseive, or you coule even weave them into a guide or butt wrap. I would likely do a wrap at the top of the butt section, and the bottom of the tip section with an alignment marke woven in. Just be sure that the beginning of your butt wrap, which will likely have the tip section slid onto - to be about an 1/8 or 1/4 inch away from the end of the bottomed out tip section. As a rod is used, the butt section tends to get reduced in size, and the tip section, tends to slightly increase in size. As a result, the tip section tends to slid further down the rod with use. Just accomodate this potential change in tip positon when you do a wrap on the butt section, near the tip of the butt section to avoid wear causing the tip section to hit the butt tip wrap.

Take care
Roger

I spiral two piece all the time, three piece travel rods as well. No problems.

This is a newbie question, but since I'm in the process of making my first spiral wrap, I would appreciate some opinions to this idea. I didn't think about making aligning marks until I read this thread. To do this in a unique fashion I was thinking about wrapping in an alignment line for both sections at the junction. This would be a double piece of the trim perpendicular across the other thread band. Would that be sufficient, or is there a better option for it?