i just wrapped my first spiral wrap rod last night. tested it out with line through to see if any rub occured and was all good. no rubs. i believe i am using the O'quinn method as it is 0-45-90-135-180 degrees in transition. i tried a search and looked it up on the internet but couldnt find enough info or even a pic. i figured out the layout off the top of my head without even doing any research (experimentation). i figured if there's no line rub then i must have it right.

well what i wanted to know was what's the diff between the o'quinn and the forhan methods? and does anybody have pictures of the two that i can compare? much appreciated.

also, i noticed that there tends to be a lot of guides used in the spiral wrap method. for a 7ft casting rod what is the usual number of guides used? the one i wrapped last night has 9 including tip.

ill be testing the rod out soon and if i really like it im taking all my rods apart and re-wrapping them spirally! hahaha.

No, that won't be the O'Quinn method. There are no set postions or axis locations for guides with the O'Quinn method - the line path determines such.

The new issue of RodMaker has an overview of all the popular spiral wrap methods. You should have it any day and can review the various methods and perhaps see if you have the one that's best for your particular application.

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Arvin; Ralph offsets his stripper about 45 degrees to the left as I recall. This will give you a straighter line path. You can however start with the first guide at zero and some people say that it is better that way when using a levelwind reel because they have a tendency to pile line more to one side when using an offset method. I don't know if that is true. I have wrapped using both methods and haven't had that problem with either method. I do however prefer the O'Quinn way.

tom:
sorry to say, i just now subscribed to rodmaker magazine. since i just sent in the subscription (through internet) will i be receiving the issue with the articles you were talking about or will i have to order a back issue?

You'll get the new issue in about a week.

The Forhan Revolver style spiral is based on one of the early system where the guides were located at 0 - 60 - 120 and 180 degrees and over a reasonably short distance. Rich likes to offset his 0 and 180 degree guides by just enough so that the line itself is on the 0 and 180 degree axis.

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hmm interesting. i did notice that the rotating guides mentioned in various posts were over a fairly short distance. what i did was just measure out the usual guide spacing that i would normally do on a rod that long and that action, and then upon guide placement, just rotated them to their positions. and being a 5 guide transition from 0-180, it left me with just the last four guides to run with.