That's totally understandable, although if you're paying close to the value of your rod to take it on a plane maybe you could use that money to build a "travel" set that wouldn't crush your soul if it were to get lost/broken. It wasn't clear what type of traveling you'd be doing in your original post but yeah there's definitely some places I wouldn't trust either but that's what insuran
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Not really an answer to your question but maybe a solution to your problem. Why not just ship your rods ahead of you?
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Thanks Gary, I may end up going with these, I'll have to shoot them an email after I get everything else together.
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Just want to update this thread after contacting mudhole, I was informed that they indeed do not carry double swaged tigold guides, so it's probably safe to assume that black tigold and black hard chrome are also non existent in the double swagged configuration, unless anyone's come across them?
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Appreciate your input, that's really good to know.
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Interesting, now that I look at the sku number there is a 3 and 4 distinction, would be nice if mudhole made some type of distinction on their product page other than having to look at the sku. "Whats the rod being set-up for?" Just a little travel rod, I'm sure they'll function fine (now that I know it's intentional) I know I won't be able to stand them aesthetically though. So ev
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Hoping I could get some opinions from someone more familiar with these guides. Ordered some of these recently (Hard Chrome TiGold) and the insert is not bent around the frame as I'm assuming it's supposed to be, one side or the other is molded to the frame but not both. I happened to have a set from last year (hard chrome) that has both sides molded to the frame, so I guess my question is is th
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