El Bolinger Wrote:
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> Sometimes the study of extremes can lead to skewed
> practical implications.
>
> One of these days I'm going to take an old rod and
> add some thread and epoxy behind each of the
> guides and measure the difference.
>
> @Tom what was the ERN of those blanks? Did you
> ever actually simply compare the difference
> between double foot guides and single foot guides
> on the same blank?


The demo wasn't intended to be practical in terms of fishing it - it was intended as a real world demo for those who believed that you make a rod stiffer by adding guides to it. The idea that adding one or two guides makes it stiffer, but adding 20 guides makes it softer flies in the face of reason.

Try it for yourself - measure a naked rod blank. Now wrap a half dozen guides on it (which is a practical amount) and measure it again. If you find an increase in the rod's power (ERN) you will be the first person in history to stiffen a rod by adding guides to it.

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