Tom Kirkman Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The opening on the tiptop should be at least as > large as the opening on the smallest guides. > Larger will work as well, but isn't necessary. > > .......... I assume when they write that the loop size is 5.5mm, that is the actual inside diameter of the guide?
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How should I think when choosing tip tops for fly rods? On one fly rod I will have size 1/0 (OD 5.7 ID 4.3) single leg guides and on the other rod size 1 (OD 6.5 ID 5.0) single leg guides. There’s these 3 tip tops I can choose from in the same series and color: - Seymo DLC standard tip top" (5.5mm ring size) - Seymo OST DLC tip tops (7mm ring size) - Seymo 731 XL hayfork DLC tip tops
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Tom Kirkman Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I would advise using about 1 guide per foot of rod > length, plus one. This does not include the > tiptop. > > ......... So 9 single leg guides + 2 Torzite "strippers" for a 9.6 foot rod and 8 + 2 for a 9 foot rod?
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I''m just some glueing away from being ready to order and attach guides on 3 fly rods I'm building. I'm building a #4 9 foot, a #5 9.6 foot and a #6 9.6 foot. I think I will be using size Seymo single leg 1/0 (OD 5.7 ID 4.3) running guides on the #4 rod and size 1 (OD 6.5 ID 5.0) running guides on the #5 and #6. For stripper I will be using Torzite LKWTG. Maybe a size 8 for the #4 and a s
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david taylor Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Once you have met certain functional, spacing and > sizing requirements for your fly rod guides, the > remaining choices and fine tuning are up to you, > which is the great part of building your own rods. > Tom likes the Minima, which is great. He is not > alone in that fondness. They are ver
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I will use a Torzite for stripper, I'm gonna try a size 8 and then directly to size 1/0 och 1 running guides. For the #4 rod I'm thinking single leg snakes. For the #6 I don't know. Maybe a Size 8 to a size 6 Torzite, then single leg snakes or traditional snake guides. If I don't go directly from a torzite stripper to the same size running guides I think it better to use a smaller Torzite transit
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Tom Kirkman Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Fly rods only have one stripping guide - that is > the guide closest to the reel. Many will have two > double foot ceramic guides due to the main load on > a rod being in the bottom half to one third of the > rod's length. I wouldn't worry about that too much > on the light line weight rods but o
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Thank you! What is it with the PacBay Minima's that you think makes them better that single leg snakes?
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How far away do you put the stripper from the reel? On casting rods I put itthe first guide further away from the reel than on rods you buy and I think it was much better overall for the function of the rod.
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I will think about 1 or 2 strippers. But having all running guides the same size sounds right, that's what I do on casting rods. But thinking if I should maybe use single foot guides near the tip and then snakes closer to the stripper guide. If I want the snakes and the single foot version of the snake to be the same size, should I buy all of them in size 1 for a #4 rod? Is size 1 the smallest si
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After some 10 years without fly fishing at all, I will now go back to this type of fishing. I have built casting rods and ice fishing rods that I really love, I now want to put this love into a couple of fly rods. On my casting rods I uses Torzite guides that I really love, carbon handles is a given too. I know more or less nothing about guides for fly rods. I think I want 2 Torzite stripper guid
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What would you say is the best ice rod guides? I'm building a power noodle rod with 0.8mm tip. I will put an inline reel on it so a little taller spinning guide first I'm thinking and then regular guides. The problem I Have is to find suitable tip tops for this small diameter blanks that still have bigger rings..
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Hi! I'm thinging of building an ice rod for lakers/bog trout and walleye/pike etc. The Batson .385X.105X72 blank seems to be the most popular blank for this application? Does ice rods on this blank suit well for a JawJacker and if they do, how long rods can I use with this blank for the jawJacker? 36" or will even 40-45" rods work?
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I have to adjust an already glued tip top, I used flex coat tip top adhesive. What the best way? The tip top need to be adjusted a little to the side, it's a little bit of right now.. Heat with soldering iron? Use a burner?
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Why no videos with casting guides?
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Is there any reason to use a size 5 belly and then size 4 runningguides or should I use 4 all the way after the reverse stripper guide? Jim Ising Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > If you want to go with the Titanium TORZITE® > Fuji's and use small guides you are headed for a > KR Concept build. That would call for a TRVTG6 as > a stripper (instal
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I'm thinking about trying the new Pacbay Minima titanium TiBlack T and F guides. Are these top notch or are there even better alternatives I should have a look at?
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What would you consider are the best micro titan casting guides for bass rods right now? I’m gonna build some around 7 feet bassrods with different actions. I will be using new Daiwa Zillion casting reels, with thin 8-strand braid and FC leaders. Casting distans and sensitivity are importand of course, but I also hate noise from the braid going through the guides, I know much of that are caused b
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Great instructions, thank you! I'm thinking of installing a Textouch Graphite or MVT Reel Seat, they have 3 cut outs and carbon woven insert, in what order should I best mount the insert, to the reel seat or first to the blank?. Should i Use arbors all the way where it's not a blank exposure or is it better to splice the arbor to smaller pieces and have spaces between them?
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Sounds great, thanx!!!
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Is there a step by step instruction or video for mounting reel seats with cut outs and how to best do with arbours to those reel seats?
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How about worldwide shipping rates?
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Thank you! Where do you buy your ALPS guides? They don't seem to easy to come over?
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Looking for guides to a bass rod - jigging, texas and carolina rig mostly. Lure wights up to 1-1 1/4 oz. Rod length 7". The ALPS guides seems like a good choice. is there any other I should take a look at, titanium? What do you think of this: MXN or LXN 6 FN 5 FN 4 FN 3 S6-HCDLZT 4 (DL top)
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Thank you very much!
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Or to put it in other words, if I want to replace the carbon insert in the back of the reel seat with my own carbon tube, whats the inside diameter of that part of the reel seat?
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If I'm about to put a carbon tube on my rod blank and then the ALPS MVT reel seat or a textouch mounted to that tube, what size on the tube should I get and what size for the reel seat for the tube to fit both in the back of the reel seat (where the 2 smaller cutout are) and in the middle where the big cutout are for blank exposure?
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Anyone tried to remove the nut from the hood and use the hood with for example a threaded graphite part from a fuji KDPS16 or something. I like the hood but not the nut so much, I really like tubes as "foregrip" though and would like to combine those somehow..
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I'm thinking about purchasing an ALPS MVT reel seat, however I don't really like the hood/nut on that reel seat. I would like a Hood/nut with a graphite foregrip where I can put a carbon tube and a windcheck on it. Preferible I would like to still use the plastic part of the ALPS MVT nut/hood that fits over the reelfoot, but add that to a graphite part, like the fuji KDPS-16 but without that lock
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