Been stuck in spinning rods here lately.

Went back to building casting spiral wrap. Doing a simple with a bumper using the RV Fuji guide and it seems the first three are pretty spread out. More so than I recall but I was trying to get the choke guide to load properly and it looks okay now. Just wondering if anyone else has seen this?

20" from reel face then about 7-8" for bumper then another 11-14" for choke guide @ 180 makes it nice these 7' are taking 8 guides.

What you're doing is not a Simple Spiral. The 0 and 180 degree guides would rarely be more than 10 inches apart on a Simple Spiral.

Sounds like you're doing a standard 90 degree transition spiral.

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Yeah Tom just kinda putting the guides where they seem to want to be. I was having heck getting the 180 guide to load properly. And just kept moving things out until it was happy.

Put all the guides on top of the rod. Adjust per static distribution as you would normally do. Now spin all but the first (butt) guide to the bottom of the rod. If you don't want the line rubbing the blank go back and install a low frame casting guide between the first two guides but do not adjust the spacing of those first two guides.

You only need two guide sizes. The butt guide per normal, and then the smallest guides you can manage all along the bottom of the rod. All of those should be the same size.

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i even turn the butt guide down and with no bumper guide..straight from the reel to the bottom guide..it hasn,t blown up yet..lol.

I don't believe a casting rod has a guide that's referred to as a "choke" guide.