The Fuji 'K' series guides have the ring at a forward angle offset of about 10/15 degrees from the 90 to the blank instead of being perpendicular. Does anyone see any problems with this? Thanks

Dave-I think these guides are great, and use them (KW) as stripping guides on every fly rod I build.

I have also used the guides (KL and KT) on the last 2 spinning rods I built-really like them in that application as well.

They are very versatile, well made guides. The titanium ones are especially nice. Both the stainless and titanium have the nicest finish I have seen on any rod guides.

Drew

I would guess the angle has to do with steep angles created by the rapid choke with the KR concept. I built my first kr concept rod with the "h" guides last week, and it won't be the last! It casts awesome!

The K-Series angle is the result of a two year study to determine the cause of tangles/wind knots and ultimately design a guide frame that successfully shed the line configurations that led to tangles before they had a chance to form on and around the guide frame. There are those who believe the downward facing angle of the ring contributes to the effectiveness of the new KR Rapid Choke positioning theory, but Fuji has not openly confirmed this.

The Fuji K is surprisingly very nice and I have had no problems with these and I'm using these on so many builds now that My collection of SV and MNs is getting dusty!!

If you look at any K-Series guide from the side, you will notice a lot of things going on that most of us overlook. The frame legs, for example, angle forward as you might expect, but the RING ANGLE is completely different. There are two slope angles working together to achieve the desired result. Fuji quickly learned that if the ring angle matched the frame angle the tangles still managed to "hang" at the very top of the frame and would not release. Only when they hit that magic (patented) combination of angles did things start to work properly. Regardless of what you hear, bending a ring/frame forward does NOT make it tangle free. It requires specific design targets that include not only ring slope but entry points for frame legs into the ring frame, pivoting, properly flared frame members as they enter the frame ring, a "tucked" double leg that moves out of the way and shortens the footprint. There are MANY, MANY patents on the K-Series design. And if you don't worry about tangles you should try them for no other reason than they are probably the finest frames Fuji has ever offered - light, durable and strong.